Chipewyan

E93010

Athabaskan language Dene language Indigenous language of North America

Chipewyan is an Athabaskan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Dene people of northern Canada.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Chipewyan canonical	10
Chipewyan language	2

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Athabaskan language ⓘ Dene language ⓘ Indigenous language of North America ⓘ
alternateName	Dene Suline (Chipewyan) ⓘ surface form: Dene Suline Dene Suline (Chipewyan) ⓘ surface form: Dene Sųłiné Denesuline ⓘ
associatedWith	Dene ⓘ surface form: Dene culture First Nations ⓘ surface form: First Nations in Canada
belongsToGroup	Dene languages of the Subarctic ⓘ
continent	North America ⓘ
country	Canada ⓘ
endonym	Dënesųłiné ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Dene ⓘ
governingBody	various Dene language authorities ⓘ
hasAncestor	Proto-Athabaskan language ⓘ
hasConsonantInventory	rich set of consonants typical of Athabaskan languages ⓘ
hasDialects	various regional dialects ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType	agglutinative language ⓘ polysynthetic language ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	tonal contrasts in some dialects ⓘ
hasWordOrder	typically SOV ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	chp ⓘ
languageFamily	Athabaskan ⓘ surface form: Athabaskan languages
languageFamilyBranch	Dene languages ⓘ
languageRevitalization	subject of revitalization efforts in Canada ⓘ
languageStatus	endangered language ⓘ
neighboringLanguages	Cree ⓘ Gwich’in ⓘ surface form: Gwichʼin Inuktitut ⓘ Slavey ⓘ
recognizedBy	Canadian Indigenous language programs ⓘ
region	Alberta ⓘ Manitoba ⓘ Northwest Territories ⓘ Saskatchewan ⓘ
spokenBy	Dene peoples ⓘ surface form: Dene people
spokenIn	Canada ⓘ Northern Canada ⓘ
subfamilyOf	Northern Athabaskan languages ⓘ
traditionalTerritory	Subarctic region of Canada ⓘ
usedAs	marker of Dene identity ⓘ
usedIn	ceremonial contexts ⓘ community education programs ⓘ traditional oral storytelling ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (12)

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

Northwest Territories → officialLanguage → Chipewyan ⓘ

Dene → hasSubgroup → Chipewyan ⓘ

Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories → languageUsed → Chipewyan ⓘ

Slavey → neighboringPeoples → Chipewyan ⓘ

Denesuline → alsoKnownAs → Chipewyan ⓘ

Dene Suline (Chipewyan) → alternativeName → Chipewyan ⓘ

subject surface form: Dene Suline

North Slave Region → hasIndigenousLanguage → Chipewyan ⓘ

Dene languages → hasMember → Chipewyan ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chipewyan language

Matonabbee → languageSpoken → Chipewyan ⓘ

Athabaskan → includesLanguage → Chipewyan ⓘ

Dënesųłiné → hasExonym → Chipewyan ⓘ

Proto-Athabaskan language → ancestorOf → Chipewyan ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chipewyan language