Lower Tanana language

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The Lower Tanana language is an endangered Northern Athabaskan language traditionally spoken by the Tanana people in the interior region of Alaska.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Northern Athabaskan language
endangered language
indigenous language of North America
alternateName Lower Tanana Athabaskan
Lower Tanana Athabaskan
surface form: Lower Tanana Dene
classification Na-Dene
surface form: Na-Dene language family
closelyRelatedTo Koyukon language
Lower Tanana language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tanana language

Upper Tanana language
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
endangeredStatus moribund
ethnicity Tanana people
hasGrammaticalFeature aspectual distinctions in verbs
obligatory verb agreement
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verb morphology
prefixing morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
rich consonant inventory
hasTypology polysynthetic language
tone language
hasWordOrder SOV
ISO639-3 taa
languageBranch Dene languages
languageEndangermentCause language shift to English
languageFamily Athabaskan
surface form: Athabaskan languages
languageFamilyBranch Alaskan Athabaskan
linguisticArea Subarctic linguistic area
region interior Alaska
revitalizationEfforts community-based language programs in Alaska
spokenAlong Tanana River
spokenIn Alaska
United States of America
surface form: United States
status severely endangered
subfamily Northern Athabaskan languages
traditionalCommunity Chena River State Recreation Area
surface form: Chena River region

Minto, Alaska
Nenana
surface form: Nenana, Alaska
traditionalSpeakers Tanana people
usedBy Tanana communities in interior Alaska
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Northern Athabaskan languages hasMember Lower Tanana language
Lower Tanana language closelyRelatedTo Lower Tanana language self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Tanana language
Nenana hasIndigenousName Lower Tanana language
this entity surface form: Toghotili (Lower Tanana Athabascan)
Lower Tanana isPartOf Lower Tanana language
this entity surface form: Tanana language
Koyukon Athabaskan closelyRelatedTo Lower Tanana language