Tagish

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Tagish is an endangered Athabaskan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Tagish people of southern Yukon in northwestern Canada.

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Tagish canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language
Indigenous language
Northern Athabaskan language
endangered language
country Canada
ethnicity Tagish people
hasAlternativeName Tagish language
surface form: Tagish Athabaskan

Tagish language
hasCulturalDomain ceremonial practices
oral storytelling
traditional place names
hasDocumentationType grammatical notes
texts
wordlists
hasEndangermentLevel severely endangered
hasGlottocode tagi1240
hasLanguageShiftTo English
Tlingit
hasLinguisticArea Yukon Territory
surface form: Yukon Interior
hasMorphologicalType polysynthetic
prefixing verb morphology
hasNeighboringLanguage Northern Tutchone
Southern Tutchone
Tlingit
hasNotableSpeaker Angela Sidney
Annie Ned
Lucy Wren
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory
tonal contrasts
hasRevitalizationEffort community language programs in Yukon
hasSpeakerCommunity Carcross
Tagish Lake area
isCloseTo Northern Tutchone
Southern Tutchone
Tlingit
surface form: Tlingit language
ISO639-3 tgx
isPartOf Northern Athabaskan languages
surface form: Northern Athabaskan branch
isRecognizedAs First Nations language of Yukon
isRecognizedBy Government of Yukon
surface form: Yukon government
languageFamily Athabaskan
surface form: Athabaskan languages

Na-Dene
surface form: Na-Dene languages
region Southwestern Yukon
surface form: southern Yukon
spokenBy Tagish people
spokenIn Yukon
northwestern Canada
southern Yukon
status endangered
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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