Dakelh (Carrier) language

E350954

The Dakelh (Carrier) language is an Indigenous Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Dakelh people of central British Columbia, Canada.

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Label Occurrences
Dakelh (Carrier) language canonical 2
Dakelh language 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf First Nations language
Indigenous language of North America
Northern Athabaskan language
alternateName Carrier language
Dakelh (Carrier) language
closelyRelatedTo Babine-Witsuwit’en language
Sekani language
Tsilhqot’in
surface form: Tsilhqot’in language
country Canada
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
ethnicGroup Dakelh people
glottocode carr1248
hasDialect Babine dialect
Cheslatta dialect
Fraser Lake dialect
Nazko dialect
Stuart Lake dialect
Witsuwit’en dialect
hasLanguageRevitalizationEffort community-based language classes
immersion and language nest programs in some communities
orthography standardization projects
hasLinguisticResearchBy Bill Poser
James A. Kari
Keren Rice
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verb templates
polysynthetic morphology
prefixing verb morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory typical of Athabaskan languages
tonal contrasts in some dialects
hasSyntacticFeature basic SOV word order tendency
ISO639-3Code crx
languageFamily Athabaskan
surface form: Athabaskan languages

Northern Athabaskan languages
languageStatus threatened
nativeName Dakelh
region Central Interior of British Columbia
spokenIn British Columbia
Canada
central British Columbia
subfamilyOf Dené languages
Na-Dene
surface form: Na-Dene languages
taughtAt University of Northern British Columbia
surface form: University of Northern British Columbia (in some programs and projects)
taughtIn some schools in Dakelh communities
usedBy Dakelh First Nations communities
usedFor ceremonial and cultural practices
oral storytelling traditions
traditional governance and community events
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Northern Athabaskan languages hasMember Dakelh (Carrier) language
Tsilhqot’in (Chilcotin) closelyRelatedTo Dakelh (Carrier) language
subject surface form: Tsilhqot’in language
this entity surface form: Dakelh language
Dakelh (Carrier) language alternateName Dakelh (Carrier) language
subject surface form: Dakelh language