The Aleuts, residing on several islands
of the Aleutian Chain, the Pribilof Islands, and the Alaskan Peninsula, have
possessed a written language since 1825, when the Russian missionary Ivan
Veniaminov selected appropriate characters of the Cyrillic alphabet to represent
Aleut speech sounds, recorded the main body of Aleut vocabulary, and formulated
grammatical rules. The Czarist Russian conquest of the proud, independent sea
hunters was so devastatingly thorough that tribal traditions, even tribal
memories, were almost obliterated. The slaughter of the majority of an adult
generation was sufficient to destroy the continuity of tribal knowledge, which
was dependent upon oral transmission. As a consequence, the Aleuts developed a
fanatical devotion to their language as their only cultural heritage. The A. the Aleuts’ loyalty to their language and American failure to understand it B. Russian and United States’ treatment of Alaskan inhabitants both before and after 1867 C. how the Czarist Russian occupation of Alaska created a written language for the Aleuts D. United States government attempts to persuade the Aleuts to use English as a second language [单项选择]The Aleuts, residing on several islands of the Aleutian Chain, the Pribilof Islands, and the Alaskan Peninsula, have possessed a written language since 1825, when the Russian missionary Ivan Veniaminov selected appropriate characters of the Cyrillic alphabet to represent Aleut speech sounds, recorded the main body of Aleut vocabulary, and formulated grammatical rules. The Czarist Russian conquest of the proud, independent sea hunters was so devastatingly thorough that tribal traditions, even tribal memories, were almost obliterated. The slaughter of the majority of an adult generation was sufficient to destroy the continuity of tribal knowledge, which was dependent upon oral transmission. As a consequence, the Aleuts developed a fanatical devotion to their language as their only cultural heritage.
The Russian occupation placed a heavy linguistic burden on the Aleuts. Not only were they compelled to learn Russian to converse with their overseers and governors, but they had to lea A. Invention of a written version of their language. B. Introduction of Old Slavonic for worship. C. Disruption of oral transmission of tribal knowledge. D. Institution of compulsory English education. 我来回答: 提交
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