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Innocent of Alaska

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Life
His travels over the islands greatly enhanced Father John Veniaminov's familiarity with the local dialects. In a short time he mastered six of the dialects. He devised an alphabet of Cyrillic letters for the most widespread dialect, the Unagan dialect of Aleut and, in 1828, translated portions of the Bible and other church material into that dialect. In 1829, he journeyed to the Bering Sea coast of the Alaskan mainland and preached to the people there.
In 1834, Father John was transferred to Sitka Island, to the town of Novoarkhangelsk, later called Sitka. He devoted himself the Tlingit people and studied their language and customs. His studies there produced the scholarly works ''[http://www.asna.ca/alaska/research/zamechaniya.pdf Notes on the Kolushchan and Kodiak Tongues]'' and ''Other Dialects of the Russo-American Territories, with a Russian-Kolushchan Glossary''.
[[Image:Innokentii, Metropolitan of Moscow.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Innokentii, Metropolitan of Moscow (1797-1879), called the "Apostle of Alaska"]]

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