Lower Tanana

E370899

Athabaskan language Northern Athabaskan language indigenous language of North America

Lower Tanana is an Athabaskan language of interior Alaska, closely related to Koyukon and traditionally spoken along the lower Tanana River.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Lower Tanana canonical	1
lower Tanana River	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Athabaskan language ⓘ Northern Athabaskan language ⓘ indigenous language of North America ⓘ
classificationAuthority	Ethnologue ⓘ ISO 639-3 ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Koyukon ⓘ Tanana language continuum ⓘ
continent	North America ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
endangermentStatus	moribund language ⓘ severely endangered language ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Athabascan peoples ⓘ surface form: Athabaskan peoples
hasCulturalAssociation	Athabaskan cultural traditions ⓘ subsistence hunting and fishing communities ⓘ
hasDialect	Minto dialect ⓘ Nenana dialect ⓘ
hasLinguisticResearch	grammatical description ⓘ lexicographic work ⓘ text collections ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	complex verb morphology ⓘ polysynthetic morphology ⓘ prefixing verb structure ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	rich consonant inventory ⓘ tonal contrasts in some analyses ⓘ
hasRevitalizationEffort	community-based language programs ⓘ documentation and recording projects ⓘ
historicalStatus	primary language of Lower Tanana communities ⓘ
isDocumentedBy	linguistic fieldwork in Alaska ⓘ
isPartOf	Lower Tanana language ⓘ surface form: Tanana language
languageFamily	Athabaskan language family ⓘ surface form: Athabaskan languages
linguisticArea	Subarctic linguistic area ⓘ
neighboringLanguage	Gwich’in ⓘ surface form: Gwichʼin Koyukon ⓘ Upper Tanana ⓘ
region	Tanana River ⓘ surface form: Tanana River basin
shiftedTo	English ⓘ
spokenAlong	Lower Tanana self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: lower Tanana River
spokenIn	Alaska ⓘ interior Alaska ⓘ
subfamily	Northern Athabaskan languages ⓘ surface form: Northern Athabaskan
traditionalSpeakers	Tanana people ⓘ surface form: Lower Tanana people
usedFor	ceremonial speech ⓘ everyday communication in traditional communities ⓘ traditional oral narratives ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

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Input

Subject: Lower Tanana
Description of subject: Lower Tanana is an Athabaskan language of interior Alaska, closely related to Koyukon and traditionally spoken along the lower Tanana River.

Referenced by (2)

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

Koyukon → closelyRelatedTo → Lower Tanana ⓘ

Lower Tanana → spokenAlong → Lower Tanana self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: lower Tanana River