Alaska Native Language Center

Alaska Native Language Center (ANLC)
The Alaska Native Language Center (ANLC), established in 1972 in Fairbanks, Alaska, is a research center focusing on the research and documentation of Alaska's 20 native languages, which is affiliated with and hosted by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. It publishes grammars, dictionaries, folklore collections and research materials, as well as hosting an extensive archive of written materials relating to Eskimo, North Athabaskan, and related languages. The Center provides training, materials and consultation for educators, researchers and others working with Alaska Native languages. The closely affiliated Alaska Native Language Program offers degrees in Central Yup'ik and Inupiaq at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and works toward the documentation and preservation of these languages.



ANLC publishes its research in story collections, dictionaries, grammars, and research papers. The center houses an archival collection of more than 10,000 items, virtually everything written in or about Alaska Native languages, including copies of most of the earliest linguistic documentation, along with significant collections about related languages outside Alaska. Staff members provide materials for bilingual teachers and other language workers throughout the state, assist social scientists and others who work with Native languages, and provide consulting and training services to teachers, school districts, and state agencies involved in bilingual education. The ANLC staff also participates in teaching through the Alaska Native Language Program, which offers major and minor degrees in Central Yup'ik and Inupiaq Eskimo at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. An AAS degree or a Certificate in Native Language Education is also available. The center strives to raise public awareness of the gravity of language loss worldwide but particularly in the North.

ANLC works on documenting Ahtna, Aleut, Alutiiq/Sugpiaq, Dena'ina, Deg Xinag, Eyak, Gwich'in, Haida, Hän, Holikachuk, Inupiaq, Koyukon, Tanana, Tanacross, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Upper Kuskokwim, Upper Tanana, Yup'ik (Central Alaskan), and Yupik (Siberian).

Links for ANLC
ANLC website