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Fort Simpson, are fonnil six distinct ton«;ues tlnoii^li which 

 tlieir relations of aflinity may be traced, vi/: the Alculian ; the 

 Kodiak ; i\\Q Kenai^ or Coolis liiUt ; thi^. Yahlootat, ov Mount 

 Saint Ellas country ; the SitJcan ; aud the iw(%«M, or Prince (tf 

 Wales Island. 



The Aleutian tongue is the language of the iidiabitants of 

 the Aleutian Islands and part of the Peninsula ; it is divided 

 into two dialects, one spoken by the Aleuts of Atka, and the 

 other by those of Ounalashka. 



The Kodiak tongue is the root of all the dialects spokeu 

 on the shores of Bering Sea, and still farther north and to the 

 east; it is the tongue spoken by the ChoochJcie of the Asiatic 

 side, and is divided into six distinct dialects, and these agaiu 

 subdivided, so that the Kodiak root is the language of the fol- 

 lowing tribes : 



The MalemuteSj of Kotzebue Sound, Norton Sound, Port Clar- 

 ence, the Diomedes, King, Sledge, and Saint Lawrence Islands. 



The Aziagnmtes^ of Saint xMichael's, part of the Pastol Bay 

 and as far north as Norton's Sound. 



The Afjoolmntes^ of the mouth of the Yukon Kiver. 



The Magmutes, between CapeKomanzov and Cape Avinov. 



The KosJtoquimSj of Koskoquim Bay and liiver. 



The Aglahmutes, of the Nushagak country, and part of the 

 Peninsula. 



The Kiiniva'ks, of Nunivak Island, who use a dialect almost 

 like the pure Kodiak, which is spoken on that island. 



The Kcyoulions^ of the Middle Yukon Kiver. 



The Ingaleelcs, of the Lower Yukon Iliver. 



The Choogalcs, between Cape Elizabeth and the mouth of 

 Copper Kiver, (taking all the south shore of the Keuai Penin- 

 sula and Prince William's Sound.) 



The Kenai tongue can hardly be called of Kodiak deriva- 

 tion ; it is divided into four dialects: 



The Kenai, of the Gulf of Kenai, or Cook's Inlet. 



The Maidnorskie, or people on Copper Kiver. 



The Kolchans, or people of the Upper Koskoquim Kiver — 

 quite a large tribe, estimated at six or seven thousand. 



The KahvichpalxS, a people on the Upper Yukon. In this dia- 

 lect are many words of Kodiak and Yahkiitat. 



The Kenai language is the most ditiicult of all the ludiau 

 tongues, so abounding in a profusion of harsh, guttural sounds 

 that their own savage neighbors frequently try iu vain to ac- 

 quire them when it is for their interest to do so. 



