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*‘Rosetta Stone’ of Alutiiq language rediscovered
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Alaska Dispatch | Jul 31, 2012
US

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.

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.

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