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Native tongue
While support has been strong for Yup'ik instruction  in schools,  that support may  be waning

By JOEL GAY, Anchorage Daily News

Published: April 20, 2003

NAPASKIAK -- The first-grade classroom at Z. John Williams
School could be anywhere in America. Pint-size wooden chairs
and knee-high tables, plastic bins of crayons, walls plastered
with colorful posters and strings of alphabet letters.

But in Christine Samuelson's room, the alphabet is only 18
letters long and A doesn't stand for apple. A is for angqaq,
C means cauyaq and E is for ena.

Samuelson teaches in Yup'ik, the mother tongue of the Eskimos
who have inhabited the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta for thousands
of years.

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