Tagish language
E361994
Tagish is an endangered Northern Athabaskan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Tagish people of the Yukon in northwestern Canada.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tagish language canonical | 5 |
| Tagish Athabaskan | 1 |
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous language
ⓘ
Northern Athabaskan language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ |
| associatedWithCommunity | Carcross/Tagish First Nation ⓘ |
| associatedWithLake | Tagish Lake region ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Northern Tutchone
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Tutchone language
Southern Tutchone ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Tutchone language
Tlingit language (areally and through contact) ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| culturalRole | key marker of Tagish identity ⓘ |
| documentationBy |
Jeff Leer
ⓘ
John Ritter ⓘ Yukon Native Language Centre ⓘ |
| endangermentCause |
English language shift
ⓘ
residential school policies in Canada ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Tagish people ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName | Tagish Athapaskan ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
head-marking language
ⓘ
polysynthetic language ⓘ |
| hasMorphology | complex verb morphology ⓘ |
| hasNotableSpeaker |
Angela Sidney
ⓘ
Annie Ned ⓘ Lucy Wren ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | rich consonant inventory typical of Northern Athabaskan ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Na-Dene
ⓘ
surface form:
Na-Dene language family
|
| languageCodeISO639-3 | tgx ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Athabaskan language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Athabaskan languages
|
| preservationFormat |
audio recordings
ⓘ
bilingual story collections ⓘ text transcriptions ⓘ |
| region |
Southwestern Yukon
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Yukon Territory
|
| revitalizationEffortBy |
Tagish First Nation community programs
ⓘ
Yukon Native Language Centre ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Yukon
ⓘ
northwestern Canada ⓘ |
| status |
moribund
ⓘ
severely endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily | Northern Athabaskan languages ⓘ |
| traditionalSpeakers | Tagish people ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ceremonial speech
ⓘ
oral storytelling traditions ⓘ traditional place names ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tagish Athabaskan