Iņupiatun Eskimo Dictionary - SIL International

Mills, Walter and Minnie Morris, Beatrice Mouse, Angeline Newlin, Robert Newlin, Juanita Norton,
Viola Norton, Ruth Outwater, Willard Outwater, Robert Patterson, Jack and Cora Pungalik, Violet
Pungalik, Thomas and Edith Pungalik, Jonas Ramoth, Steve and Mildred Sampson, James Savok,
Polly Schaeffer, Albert and Minnie Sheldon, Billy Sheldon Sr., Enoch Sherman, Rachel Sherman,
Tommy and Hazel Snyder, Joe Sun, Nita Towarak, Helen Wells, Russell Williams Sr., and Whittier
and Lorena Williams. All of these speakers of the language, and many unnamed speakers as well, are
the true authors of this book.
Two other groups of people deserve a thank you. Geri Adams-Jones, Ruth Downey, Cheryl
Sampson, and Donna Westdahl typed the hand-written collection into the computer. This was a
formidable task, and I want to thank them. I also want to express thanks to Chet Dyche, Mary Norton,
Millie Ragland, Ina Gabriele Seiler, and Carsten Michael Seiler who checked the English side for
correct expression and other details.
This dictionary would not have been possible without the generous financial help of the NANA
Regional Corporation. A special thank you is due their president, Marie Greene, and their board of
directors.
My grateful thanks are also due to Dr. Calvin Rensch of the Summer Institute of Linguistics for
reading carefully parts of this dictionary and making valuable suggestions.
Last, but not least, I want to thank my wife Hildegard for her constant encouragement. We spent
countless hours discussing terms and definitions, and this dictionary is a better product because of it.
I hope that this book will inspire the renewed use of the Iñupiatun language and that the Iñupiat
Ilitqusiat Committee will publish a revised edition of this book in the future.
Amaàuq
Wolf A. Seiler
August 2005
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