Koyukon

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Koyukon is an Athabaskan (Dene) language traditionally spoken by the Koyukon people of interior Alaska along the Koyukuk and middle Yukon rivers.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Koyukon canonical 14
Central Koyukon 3
Lower Koyukon 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language
Dene language
Native American language
indigenous language of North America
language
closelyRelatedTo Denaʼina
Gwich’in
surface form: Gwichʼin

Lower Tanana
documentedBy Eliza Jones
Jules Jetté
endangeredStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Koyukon self-link
geographicDistribution Koyukuk River
surface form: Koyukuk River basin

middle Yukon River region
glottocode koyu1237
hasAlternateName Koyukon Athabaskan
hasDialects Koyukon self-linksurface differs
surface form: Central Koyukon

Koyukon self-linksurface differs
surface form: Lower Koyukon

Koyukon self-linksurface differs
surface form: Upper Koyukon
hasMorphologicalType polysynthetic
prefixing
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tone-less
hasResource Koyukon language
surface form: Koyukon Athabaskan Dictionary
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant
ISO639-3Code koy
languageBranch Northern Athabaskan languages
surface form: Northern Athabaskan
languageFamily Athabaskan
Dene
partOf Na-Dene
surface form: Na-Dene language family
regionType subarctic
revitalizationEfforts community-based language programs
language classes in Alaska schools
spokenAlong Koyukuk River
Yukon River
spokenIn Alaska
United States of America
surface form: United States
spokenInRegion interior Alaska
subclassOf Northern Athabaskan language
traditionalSpeakers Alaska Natives
surface form: Koyukon people
usedBy Koyukon communities in interior Alaska
usedIn ceremonial contexts
subsistence-related knowledge transmission
traditional oral narratives
writingSystem Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (23)

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

Alaska Natives hasSubgroup Koyukon
Loucheux neighboringPeoples Koyukon
Koyukon hasDialects Koyukon self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Upper Koyukon
Koyukon hasDialects Koyukon self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Central Koyukon
Koyukon hasDialects Koyukon self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Lower Koyukon
Koyukon ethnicGroup Koyukon self-link
Koyukon language ethnicGroup Koyukon
Koyukon language hasDialect Koyukon
this entity surface form: Lower Koyukon
Koyukon language hasDialect Koyukon
this entity surface form: Central Koyukon
Koyukon language hasDialect Koyukon
this entity surface form: Upper Koyukon
Denaʼina relatedEthnicGroup Koyukon
Athabaskan includesLanguage Koyukon
Koyukon Athabaskan hasDialects Koyukon
this entity surface form: Upper Koyukon
Koyukon Athabaskan hasDialects Koyukon
this entity surface form: Central Koyukon
Koyukon Athabaskan hasDialects Koyukon
this entity surface form: Lower Koyukon