Upper Tanana

E349734

Upper Tanana is an Athabaskan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Upper Tanana people of eastern Alaska and neighboring parts of Canada.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Upper Tanana canonical 7

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language
Indigenous language of North America
Native American language
closelyRelatedTo Gwich’in
surface form: Gwichʼin

Hän
Tanacross
continent North America
country Canada
United States of America
surface form: United States
endangeredStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Upper Tanana people
glottologName Upper Tanana self-link
hasAlternateName Upper Tanana Athabascan
Upper Tanana Athabascan
surface form: Upper Tanana Athabaskan
hasDialect Healy Lake dialect
Northway dialect
Scottie Creek dialect
Tetlin dialect
hasGlottocode uppe1395
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
rich consonant inventory
vowel length contrast
ISO639-3 tau
languageBranch Na-Dene
surface form: Na-Dene language family
languageCodeType ISO 639-3
languageFamily Athabaskan
surface form: Athabaskan languages
partOf Alaska Native languages
Indigenous languages of Canada
surface form: First Nations languages of Canada
region Upper Tanana River region
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenIn Alaska
Canada
Northwest Territories
United States of America
surface form: United States

Yukon
eastern Alaska
subgroupOf Northern Athabaskan languages
subjectTo language revitalization efforts
typologicalFeature polysynthetic morphology
tone language
verb-centered morphology
usedBy Upper Tanana communities in Alaska
Upper Tanana communities in Yukon
usedIn ceremonial contexts
traditional oral narratives
traditional songs
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ahtna Athabaskan relatedEthnicGroup Upper Tanana
Upper Tanana glottologName Upper Tanana self-link
Lower Tanana neighboringLanguage Upper Tanana
Athabaskan includesLanguage Upper Tanana