Did you know Eel River Athabaskan is dormant?

ALSO KNOWN AS		Saiaz, Eel River Athapaskan
CLASSIFICATION		Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit, Athabaskan, Pacific Coast Athabaskan
CODE AUTHORITY		LINGUIST List
LANGUAGE CODE		qt8
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Lassik Sinkyone Wailaki Nongatl
DOWNLOAD		As csv
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Golla et al. (2008): "Eel River Athabaskan was a complex of closely related local dialects of California Athabaskan ... At least four dialect clusters can be distinguished: Sinkyone, Nongatl, Lassik, and Wailaki." Ethnologue distinguishes as separate languages: Kato [ktw], Mattole [mvb], Wailaki [wlk].

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Likely dormant.

Golla et al. (2008): "Semi-fluent speakers of one or more Eel River Athabaskan varieties survived into the 1970s."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

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Dormant. Some speakers survived until the 1970s.

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Formerly spoken along the Eel River and its major tributaries in Humboldt and Mendocino Counties.

			3rd		2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger						UNESCO Publishing			Paris					http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub					0			No known L1 speakers												Dormant ()			Dormant. Some speakers survived until the 1970s.						Formerly spoken along the Eel River and its major tributaries in Humboldt and Mendocino Counties.	40.188, -123.6477
					2008	North America	Atlas of the World's Languages	7-41		Chris Moseley and Ron Asher		Routledge			London						Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco	Victor Golla, Ives Goddard, Lyle Campbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2008. "North America." In Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by Chris Moseley and Ron Asher. 7-41. Routledge.						0			No known L1 speakers					English							Dormant ()			Likely dormant. Golla et al. (2008): "Semi-fluent speakers of one or more Eel River Athabaskan varieties survived into the 1970s."

Eel River Athabaskan