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Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ ʔiːjaːq ]
- Native to
- United States
- Region
- Cordova, Alaska
- Ethnicity
- Eyak
- Extinct
- January 21, 2008, with the death of Marie Smith Jones , L2 : 1 fluent ( Guillaume Leduey )
- Revival
- early 2010s
- Language family
- Na-Dené Athabaskan –Eyak Eyak
- Writing system
- Latin
- Official language in
- Alaska
- Iso 639 3
- eya
- Linguist list
- eya.html
- Glottolog
- eyak1241
- Elp
- Eyak
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 2
- Wikimedia language code
- eya
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2008-00-00
- native label
- I.ya.q
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Eyak is an extinct Na-Dené language, historically spoken by the Eyak people, indigenous to south-central Alaska, near the mouth of the Copper River. The name Eyak comes from a Chugach Sugpiaq name (Igya'aq) for an Eyak village at the mouth of the Eyak River.
The closest relatives of Eyak are the Athabaskan languages. The Eyak–Athabaskan group forms a basic division of the Na-Dené language family, the other being Tlingit.
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2008 disestablishments in AlaskaExtinct languages of North AmericaEyakIndigenous languages of AlaskaIndigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest CoastLanguage articles with Linglist codeLanguage articles with unreferenced extinction dateLanguages extinct in the 2000sNa-Dene languagesNon-tonal languages in tonal familiesNorthern Northwest Coast Sprachbund (North America)Northwest Coast Sprachbund (North America)