Endangered Languages Project - Tagish

Tagish

Classification: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit

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critically endangered

CLASSIFICATION		Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit, Athabaskan, Northern Athabaskan
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		tgx
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		It is possible that the last fluent speaker of Tagish was Lucy Wren, who died May 2008. She is described as "one of a few individuals remaining who retain[ed] some knowledge of the language" (http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/firstnations/tagish.html). "In addition to Tlingit, English and Southern Tutchone, Lucy also spoke Tagish, and was possibly the best remaining speaker of that language" (http://www.ynlc.ca/bios/t2z/wrenl/wrenl.html).

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Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge

Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~1
Native speakers worldwide
SEMI SPEAKERS
1

DATE OF INFO: 2001

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Canada;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Was spoken until the mid 19th century around the lakes at the head of the Yukon River south of Whitehorse.

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Canada;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Yukon

Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data: (Krauss 1995). Ethnic population: 400 possibly (Krauss 1995).
(Unchanged 2016.)

DATE OF INFO: 1995

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION

PLACES: Canada;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: South Yukon, west or west-northwest of the Tlingit; some at Carcross.

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LOCATION INFORMATION

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing