Dawson language

E349740

The Dawson language, also known as Hän, is an Athabaskan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Hän people of the Yukon and Alaska regions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language
Indigenous language of North America
endangered language
alternateName Hän
Hän Hwëchʼin language
surface form: Hän Hwëch’in language

Hän language
associatedWithPeople Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin
associatedWithRiver Yukon River
closelyRelatedTo Gwich’in language
surface form: Gwichʼin language

Upper Tanana language
country Canada
United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalRole ceremonial language
oral tradition language
endangermentStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Hän Hwëch'in
surface form: Hän Hwëch’in
hasConsonantInventory rich obstruent and sonorant system
hasGlottocode hann1240
hasISO639-3Code haa
hasVowelInventory small vowel system with length contrast
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant
historicalContactWith English language
French
surface form: French language

Tlingit
surface form: Tlingit language
languageFamily Na-Dene
surface form: Na-Dene language family
linguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
morphology prefixing verb morphology
phonologyFeature contrastive vowel length
tone
primaryCommunity Dawson City
surface form: Dawson City, Yukon

Eagle, Alaska
region Alaska
Yukon
revitalizationEffort community language classes
curriculum development
documentation projects
spokenBy Hän
surface form: Hän people
spokenIn Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation
subfamily Northern Athabaskan languages
surface form: Northern Athabaskan
traditionalTerritory Fortymile River region
Klondike River area
surface form: Klondike River region

Yukon River region
UNESCOStatus severely endangered
usedIn ceremonies
songs
traditional stories
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Hän hasAlternativeName Dawson language