Northern Athabaskan languages

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branch of language family language group

Northern Athabaskan languages are a group of closely related Indigenous languages spoken primarily in northwestern Canada and Alaska, forming a northern branch of the larger Athabaskan language family.

Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form	Occurrences
Athabaskan languages	17
Northern Athabaskan	3
Athabaskan	1
Northern Athapascan languages	1
Upper Tanana language	1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	branch of language family ⓘ language group ⓘ
areSpokenBy	Dene peoples ⓘ surface form: Athabaskan peoples Dene peoples ⓘ
geographicDistribution	Interior Alaska ⓘ Mackenzie River Basin ⓘ surface form: Mackenzie River basin Pacific Northwest ⓘ surface form: Pacific Northwest interior
hasAlternativeName	Northern Athabaskan languages ⓘ surface form: Northern Athapascan languages Northern Tutchone ⓘ surface form: Northern Dene languages
hasMember	Ahtna Athabaskan ⓘ surface form: Ahtna language Babine language ⓘ Dakelh (Carrier) language ⓘ Dena’ina language ⓘ surface form: Denaʼina language Dene Suline (Chipewyan) ⓘ surface form: Dene Suline language Dogrib language ⓘ Gwich’in language ⓘ surface form: Gwichʼin language Hare (Sahtu) language ⓘ Kaska language ⓘ Koyukon language ⓘ Lower Tanana language ⓘ Sekani language ⓘ Slavey language ⓘ Tagish language ⓘ Tanacross language ⓘ Tlicho language ⓘ Dene Suline (Chipewyan) ⓘ surface form: Tsezʼutʼine (Chipewyan) language Tutchone language ⓘ Upper Tanana language ⓘ Witsuwitʼen language ⓘ
languageFamily	Na-Dene ⓘ surface form: Na-Dene language family
partOf	Na-Dene ⓘ surface form: Athabaskan language family
region	North America ⓘ Subarctic region ⓘ surface form: Subarctic North America
spokenIn	Alaska ⓘ Alberta ⓘ British Columbia ⓘ Manitoba ⓘ Northwest Territories ⓘ Saskatchewan ⓘ Yukon ⓘ northwestern Canada ⓘ
spokenOn	Subarctic region ⓘ
status	many languages endangered ⓘ some languages severely endangered ⓘ
subclassOf	Northern Athabaskan languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Athabaskan languages Indigenous languages of North America ⓘ Na-Dene ⓘ surface form: Na-Dene languages
typologicalFeature	complex verb morphology ⓘ prefixing verb structure ⓘ tone languages in many varieties ⓘ
wordOrder	SOV-dominant ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (27)

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

Hän → closelyRelatedTo → Northern Athabaskan languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Upper Tanana language

linguist Jeff Leer → fieldOfWork → Northern Athabaskan languages ⓘ

subject surface form: Jeff Leer