Tłı̨chǫ

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Tłı̨chǫ is an Athabaskan (Dene) language spoken by the Tłı̨chǫ people of Canada’s Northwest Territories.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language
Dene language
Northern Athabaskan language
language
alternativeName Dene
surface form: Dogrib

Tłı̨chǫ
surface form: Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì
closelyRelatedTo Dogrib language
country Canada
culturalSignificance central to Tłı̨chǫ identity
vehicle for transmission of Tłı̨chǫ traditional knowledge
ethnicGroup Tłı̨chǫ self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tłı̨chǫ people
hasDialects regional varieties in Tłı̨chǫ communities
hasMorphologicalFeature polysynthetic morphology
verb-centered morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant system
tonal contrasts
hasSpeakers Tłı̨chǫ communities in the Northwest Territories
hasSyntacticFeature relatively free word order
hasType spoken language
isSubjectOf language revitalization efforts in the Northwest Territories
languageFamily Northern Athabaskan languages
surface form: Athabaskan languages

Dene languages
partOf Dene
surface form: Dene language area
recognizedBy Government of the Northwest Territories as an official Indigenous language
region Mackenzie Valley
North Slave Region
spokenBy Tłı̨chǫ self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tłı̨chǫ people
spokenIn Canada
Northwest Territories
status Indigenous language
minority language
subclassOf First Nations language
Indigenous language of North America
taughtIn some schools in Tłı̨chǫ communities
usedFor community radio programming in Tłı̨chǫ areas
local governance in Tłı̨chǫ communities
usedIn community life in Tłı̨chǫ communities
oral storytelling of the Tłı̨chǫ people
traditional cultural practices of the Tłı̨chǫ people
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (7)

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

Tłı̨chǫ alternativeName Tłı̨chǫ
this entity surface form: Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì
Tłı̨chǫ ethnicGroup Tłı̨chǫ self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Tłı̨chǫ people
Gwich’in hasNeighboringLanguages Tłı̨chǫ
Dene hasSubgroup Tłı̨chǫ
this entity surface form: Tłı̨chǫ (Dogrib)
Tłı̨chǫ spokenBy Tłı̨chǫ self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Tłı̨chǫ people