Tlingit
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Tlingit is an Indigenous language of the Pacific Northwest Coast, traditionally spoken by the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska and western Canada.
Aliases (7)
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous language
→
Na-Dene language → Native American language → endangered language → |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Athabaskan languages (distantly)
→
Eyak (distantly) → |
| documentedBy |
Franz Boas
→
surface form: "linguist Franz Boas"
linguist Jeff Leer → linguist John R. Swanton → |
| ethnicGroup |
Tlingit
→
surface form: "Tlingit people"
|
| glottocode | tlin1245 → |
| hasCulturalDomain |
Northwest Coast art terminology
→
clan and kinship terminology → |
| hasDialects |
Tlingit
→
surface form: "Inland Tlingit"
Tlingit →
surface form: "Northern Tlingit"
Tlingit →
surface form: "Southern Tlingit"
|
| hasMorphologicalType |
polysynthetic
→
prefixing verb morphology → |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
complex consonant inventory
→
ejective consonants → tone or pitch accent distinctions → |
| hasRevitalizationEffort |
community language classes
→
documentation projects → immersion programs → university courses → |
| hasSyntacticFeature |
head-marking
→
verb-final tendencies → |
| hasWritingSystem |
Cyrillic script (historical/missionary use)
→
Latin alphabet →
surface form: "Latin script"
orthography developed in 20th century → |
| influencedBy |
English (lexical borrowing)
→
Russian (historical contact) → |
| ISO639-2 | tli → |
| ISO639-3 | tli → |
| languageBranch | Tlingit branch of Na-Dene → |
| languageFamily | Na-Dene → |
| region |
Southeastern Alaska
→
surface form: "Alaska Panhandle"
British Columbia → Yukon River →
surface form: "Yukon"
|
| spokenIn |
Canada
→
Pacific Northwest →
surface form: "Pacific Northwest Coast"
United States of America →
surface form: "United States"
Southeastern Alaska →
surface form: "southeastern Alaska"
western Canada → |
| status | severely endangered (few fluent speakers) → |
| usedFor |
ceremonial speech
→
oral tradition → storytelling → traditional songs → |
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Tlingit people"
subject surface form: "Jeff Leer"
this entity surface form: "Tlingit language"
this entity surface form: "Northern Tlingit"
this entity surface form: "Southern Tlingit"
this entity surface form: "Inland Tlingit"
this entity surface form: "Tlingit culture"
this entity surface form: "Tlingit language"
this entity surface form: "Tlingit (in Canadian context)"
this entity surface form: "Tlingit language"
this entity surface form: "Tlingit language"
subject surface form: "Jeff Leer"