Linguist studies unique variant of Russian found on Kodiak Island (fwd link)

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Linguist studies unique variant of Russian found on Kodiak Island

Article published on Thursday, August 14th, 2008
By ERIK WANDER
Mirror Writer

A unique version of the 18th century Russian language still spoken by a handful
of people in Kodiak and Port Lions is the subject of a study by a researcher
from St. Petersburg, Russia.

Evgeny Golovko, a professor of linguistics at the Institute for Linguistic
Studies and the European University at St. Petersburg, is in Kodiak to document
what remains of an unusual variant of the Russian language before it vanishes.

Golovko, who specializes in the Native languages of Siberia, is collaborating
with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska Native Language Center on a
project called Documenting Alaska Native and Neighboring Languages.

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