Athabaskan

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Athabaskan is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, spoken primarily in Alaska, northwestern Canada, and the American Southwest.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous language family
language family
alternativeName Athabaskan language family
surface form: Athapascan

Athabaskan
surface form: Athapaskan

Dene languages
continent North America
ethnicGroupAssociated Apache tribes
surface form: Apache peoples

Dene peoples
Navajo people
geographicDistribution North America
hasBranch Northern Athabaskan languages
surface form: Northern Athabaskan

Pacific Coast Athabaskan
Southern Athabaskan
hasSubfamily Apachean languages
Dene Suline languages
includesLanguage Ahtna Athabaskan
surface form: Ahtna

Carrier
Chipewyan
Deg Xinag
Denaʼina
Dogrib
Gwich’in
surface form: Gwichʼin

Hupa
Koyukon
Navajo people
surface form: Navajo

Slavey
Tanacross
Tutchone
Upper Tanana
Western Apache
linguisticFeature complex verb morphology
prefixing verb structure
tone in many member languages
partOf Na-Dene
surface form: Na-Dene language family
spokenIn Alaska
Alberta
southwestern United States
surface form: American Southwest

Arizona
British Columbia
New Mexico
Northern California
Northwest Territories
Oklahoma
Oregon
Saskatchewan
Yukon
status many languages endangered
writingSystem Latin script (for most languages)

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

Babine language languageFamily Athabaskan
this entity surface form: Athabaskan languages
Government of the Northwest Territories as an official Indigenous language languageFamily Athabaskan
subject surface form: Tłı̨chǫ language
this entity surface form: Athabaskan languages
Southern Tutchone languageSubfamily Athabaskan
this entity surface form: Athabaskan language family
Koyukon language subfamilyOf Athabaskan
this entity surface form: Athabaskan languages
Kaska languageSubfamily Athabaskan
this entity surface form: Athabaskan languages
Northern Tutchone languageFamily Athabaskan
this entity surface form: Athabaskan languages
Upper Tanana languageFamily Athabaskan
this entity surface form: Athabaskan languages
Hän Hwëch'in people languageFamily Athabaskan
this entity surface form: Athabaskan languages
Hän Hwëchʼin language languageFamily Athabaskan
this entity surface form: Athabaskan languages
Hankutchin languageFamily Athabaskan
this entity surface form: Athabaskan languages
Hän language family Athabaskan
this entity surface form: Athabaskan languages
Tutchone language family Athabaskan
this entity surface form: Athabaskan languages
Athabaskan alternativeName Athabaskan
this entity surface form: Athapaskan