Eyak
[别称 dAXunhyuuga']语系:Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit
·唤醒
语系:Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit
·唤醒
"It is altogether clear that the origin of the name 'Eyak' is the local Chugach Eskimo name of the Eyak village site near the mouth of the Eyak River on Eyak Lake at Mile 6, in Chugach Igya’aq. In this the initial I- is pronounced as the -i- in sing, the -g- as a voiced fricative gamma, and the -ya’aq has not the vowel of yak as in the English pronuncia- tion of the name, but rhymes more or less rather with hawk, except that the final consonant is of course the Eskimo-Aleut back velar -q, not mid- mouth English -k." (Krauss 2006: 199)
信息不完整 “The dAXunhyuuga' eLearning Place” . Eyak People
"Eyak was the first of Alaska’s endangered languages to lose its last native speaker. Now, Eyak is about to become the first 'extinct' language in Alaska to come back to life."
The Eyak practical orthography makes use of uppercase letters to represent sounds not found in English. The academic orthography used by Krauss employs a phonetic alphabet.
信息不完整 “A History of Eyak Language Documentation and Study: Fredericæ de Laguna in Memoriam” (172-217) . M. E. Krauss (2006)
"Marie Smith Jones (née Stevens) was the youngest Eyak speaker and is now, age 88, the last speaker of Eyak." In 1961 there were 6 speakers of Eyak: Anna Nelson Harry, George Johnson, Lena Saska Naktan, Marie Smith Jones, Sophie Borodin, and Mike Sewak.
Only one remaining speaker.
Eyak territory extents from Cordova and the Copper River Delta along the Gulf of Alaska coast to Yakutat Bay.
信息不完整 “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
"Eyak is being taught in Cordova (2014)."
"Shifted to English [eng]."
"Alaska, Copper river mouth."