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.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Athabaskan language → Dene language → Indigenous language of North America →
alternateName	Dene Suline → Dene Sųłiné → Denesuline →
associatedWith	Dene culture → 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 languages →
languageFamilyBranch	Dene languages →
languageRevitalization	subject of revitalization efforts in Canada →
languageStatus	endangered language →
neighboringLanguages	Cree → Gwichʼin → Inuktitut → Slavey →
recognizedBy	Canadian Indigenous language programs →
region	Alberta → Manitoba → Northwest Territories → Saskatchewan →
spokenBy	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 →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Dene →	hasSubgroup
Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories →	languageUsed
Northwest Territories →	officialLanguage