Southern Tutchone

E353942

Southern Tutchone is an Athabaskan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Southern Tutchone people in the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Southern Tutchone canonical 6
Southern Tutchone language 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language
First Nations language
Indigenous language of North America
closelyRelatedTo Kaska
Northern Tutchone
Tagish
continent North America
country Canada
endangeredStatus endangered language
ethnicGroup Athabascan peoples
surface form: Southern Tutchone people
governingBody local First Nations governments
hasAlternativeName Southern Tutchone
surface form: Southern Tutchone language
hasDialects various community-based dialects
hasGlottocode sout2960
hasISO639-3Code tce
hasMorphologicalFeature polysynthetic morphology
verb-centered morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant system
tonal contrasts
hasResourceType audio recordings
dictionaries
grammars
hasSpeakerCommunity Champagne and Aishihik region
Haines Junction area
Kluane National Park and Reserve
surface form: Kluane region

Whitehorse area
isPartOf Northern Athabaskan languages
languageFamily Na-Dene
surface form: Na-Dene language family
languageOf Southern Tutchone culture
languageStatus threatened language
languageSubfamily Athabaskan
surface form: Athabaskan language family
recognizedAs Aboriginal language of Yukon
recognizedBy Government of Yukon
region southwestern Yukon
revitalizationEfforts adult language classes
community-based language programs
language documentation projects
school-based language instruction
spokenIn Canada
Yukon Territory
northwestern Canada
traditionalUse ceremonial contexts
oral storytelling
traditional knowledge transmission
usedBy Southern Tutchone First Nations
usedInEducation Yukon schools language programs
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

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

Yukon Native Language Centre focusLanguage Southern Tutchone
Tagish isCloseTo Southern Tutchone
Tagish hasNeighboringLanguage Southern Tutchone
Upper Tanana language closelyRelatedTo Southern Tutchone
this entity surface form: Southern Tutchone language
Southern Tutchone hasAlternativeName Southern Tutchone
this entity surface form: Southern Tutchone language
Northern Tutchone closelyRelatedTo Southern Tutchone
Tutchone language hasVariety Southern Tutchone
this entity surface form: Southern Tutchone language
Tutchone language isRelatedTo Southern Tutchone
this entity surface form: Southern Tutchone language
Tagish language closelyRelatedTo Southern Tutchone
this entity surface form: Southern Tutchone language