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Book/Printed Material Zami︠e︡chanii︠a︡ o koloshenskom" i kad'i︠a︡kskom" i︠a︡zykakh" i otchasti o prochikh" rossiĭsko - amerikanskikh", s" prisovokupleniem" rossiĭsko - koloshenskago slovari︠a︡. Sostavil" Ivan" Veniaminov", v" Sitkhi︠e︡. Замѣчанiя о колошенскoмъ и кадьякскомъ языкахъ и отчасти о прочихъ россiйско - американскихъ, съ присовокупленiемъ россiйско - колошенскаго словаря. Составилъ Иванъ Венiаминовъ, въ Ситхѣ.

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Title

  • Zami︠e︡chanii︠a︡ o koloshenskom" i kad'i︠a︡kskom" i︠a︡zykakh" i otchasti o prochikh" rossiĭsko - amerikanskikh", s" prisovokupleniem" rossiĭsko - koloshenskago slovari︠a︡. Sostavil" Ivan" Veniaminov", v" Sitkhi︠e︡.

Other Title

  • Замѣчанiя о колошенскoмъ и кадьякскомъ языкахъ и отчасти о прочихъ россiйско - американскихъ, съ присовокупленiемъ россiйско - колошенскаго словаря. Составилъ Иванъ Венiаминовъ, въ Ситхѣ.

Translated Title

  • Comments on the Koloshensk and Kodiak Languages and, in Part, on Other Russian-American Languages. With the Addition of the Russian-Koloshensk Dictionary. Compiled by Father Ioann Veniaminov in Sitka.

Summary

  • This very detailed description of the grammar of the languages of the native people of the Kodiak Islands was written by Father Ioann Veniaminov (1797-1879), who later became Saint Innokentii of Alaska. Veniaminov was one of the greatest of the Russian Orthodox missionaries to Alaska. Born in a village near Irkutsk in Siberia, Veniaminov volunteered to go to Alaska in 1823. He settled with his wife and family in Unalaska, where he built a church and school and began his lifelong task of studying the native languages of the region. He created alphabets for several native languages, particularly the Unangam dialect of Aleut and the languages of the native peoples of the Fox and Pribilof Islands, as well as the languages of the Kodiak Archipelago, which are described here. In 1840, following the death of his wife, Veniaminov took the monastic name Innokentii and was made bishop of the newly created diocese of Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands, and the Aleutians. He later served as metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, the second-highest position in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was canonized by the church in 1977.Published by the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg in 1846, the book is preserved in the National Library of Russia. It was digitized for the Meeting of Frontiers digital library project in the early 2000s. World Digital Library.

Headings

  • -  Aleut language
  • -  Aleutian Islands (Alaska)
  • -  Grammar
  • -  Language and culture
  • -  United States of America
  • -  Alaska
  • -  Kodiak

Notes

  • -  Original text at: National Library of Russia

Medium

  • 81 pages ; 23 x 16 cm

Source Collection

  • Rare Books from the National Library of Russia

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018693952

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Zami︠e︡chanii︠a︡ o koloshenskom" i kad'i︠a︡kskom" i︠a︡zykakh" i otchasti o prochikh" rossiĭsko - amerikanskikh", s" prisovokupleniem" rossiĭsko - koloshenskago slovari︠a︡. Sostavil" Ivan" Veniaminov", v" Sitkhi︠e︡. 1846. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018693952/.

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(1846) Zami︠e︡chanii︠a︡ o koloshenskom" i kad'i︠a︡kskom" i︠a︡zykakh" i otchasti o prochikh" rossiĭsko - amerikanskikh", s" prisovokupleniem" rossiĭsko - koloshenskago slovari︠a︡. Sostavil" Ivan" Veniaminov", v" Sitkhi︠e︡. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018693952/.

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Zami︠e︡chanii︠a︡ o koloshenskom" i kad'i︠a︡kskom" i︠a︡zykakh" i otchasti o prochikh" rossiĭsko - amerikanskikh", s" prisovokupleniem" rossiĭsko - koloshenskago slovari︠a︡. Sostavil" Ivan" Veniaminov", v" Sitkhi︠e︡. 1846. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018693952/>.