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Classification: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit
·critically endangered
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Denaakk'e, Ten'a |
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Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit, Dene (Athabaskan) |
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ISO 639-3 |
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koy |
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Information from: “Alaska Native Languages: Population and Speaker Statistics” . Alaska Native Language Center (2014)
Information from: “Alaska Native Languages: Population and Speaker Statistics” . Alaska Native Language Center (2014)
English
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
2,300
100 (2000 census), decreasing. Krauss (1995) listed 300. Ethnic population: 2,300 (1995 M. Krauss).
Alaska, Koyukuk and middle Yukon rivers
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
Information from: “Endangered Languages of the United States” (108-130) . Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell (2010) , Christopher Moseley · UNESCO
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 19th Edition (2016)” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
2300
300 (Golla 2007). 300 (1995 M. Krauss); 100 (2000 census). Ethnic population: 2300 (Golla 2007).
Older adults only
English
Alaska: Koyukuk and middle Yukon rivers.
Information from: “Koyukon Athabaskan Dictionary” . Jules Jetté and Eliza Jones (2000) Alaska Native Language Center
2037
This figure does not include speakers residing in the urban centers of Fairbanks and Anchorage.
The Koyukon practical orthography makes use of the characters of the English alphabet, with the addition of two non-standard characters, barred-l and barred-u.
"Koyukon Athabaskan is spoken on the middle Yukon, the Koyukuk, and lower Tanana rivers in northwestern Alaska ... in a territory that covers in the historic period approximately 78,000 square miles." Lower dialect: Kaltag, Nulato; Central Dialect: Koyukuk, Huslia, Galena, Ruby, Tanana, Rampart, Hughes, Allakaket; Upper Dialect: Tanana, Rampart, Stevens Village, Beaver, Bearpaw.