<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large">‘Rosetta Stone’ of Alutiiq language rediscovered<br></span></b><br>Alaska Dispatch | Jul 31, 2012<div>US<br><br>At the St. Herman Russian Orthodox Seminary on Kodiak Island, a yellowed and worn hand-written book dating to the early 1900s is being called the “Rosetta Stone” of the Alutiiq language, KMXT reports.<br>
<br>Daria Safronova, an archivist and faculty member of the seminary, told KMXT that the book, which contains gospels from the Bible, was previously discovered by the anthropologist Lydia Black, but its significance was not realized. “Maybe it was not the time for it to surface at that point. Now during the Alutiiq language revival, this is an incredibly important document,” Safronova told KMXT.<br>
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