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Fort Simpson, are found six distinct tongues tlirough which 

 their relations of affinity may be traced, viz: the Aleutian; the 

 Kodialc ; the Kenai, or GooJc's Inlet ; the Yahkootat, or Mount 

 Saint U lias country ; the Sitkan; and the Kaligan, or Prince of 

 Wales Island. 



The Aleutian tongub is the language of the inhabitants 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 spoken 

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

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

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

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

 lowing tribes : 



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

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



The Aziagmutes, of Saint Michael's, part of the Pastol Bay 

 and as far north as Norton's Sound. 



The Agoolmutes, of the mouth of the Yukon River. 



The Magmutes, between Cape Eomanzov and Cape Avinov. 



The Koskoquims, of Koskoquim Bay and Eiver. 



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

 Peninsula. 



The Nunivaks, of Nunivak Island, who use a dialect almost 

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



The Koyoukons, of the Middle Yukon Eiver. 



The Ingaleeks, of the Lower Yukon River. 



The Choogaks, between Cape Elizabeth and the mouth of 

 Copper River, (taking all the south shore of the Kenai 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 River. 



The Kolchans, or people of the Upper Koskoquim Eiver — 

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



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

 lect are many words of Kodiak and Yahkutat. 



The Kenai language is the most difficult of all the Indian 

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

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

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



