Tlingit
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language of southeast Alaska and western Canada
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- /ɬɪ̀nkɪ́t/
- Native to
- United States, Canada
- Region
- Alaska , British Columbia , Yukon , Washington
- Ethnicity
- 10,000 Tlingit (1995)
- Speakers
- ~50 highly-proficient L1 speakers, 10 highly-proficient L2 speakers (2020, United States) , 120 in Canada (2016 census)
- Language family
- Na-Dene Tlingit
- Dialects
- Northern Transitional Southern Tongass †
- Writing system
- Tlingit alphabet ( Latin script )
- Official language in
- Alaska
- Iso 639 2
- tli
- Iso 639 3
- tli
- Glottolog
- tlin1245
- Elp
- Tlingit
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 845
- native label
- Lingít
- Wikimedia language code
- tli
- P10369
- cognac
- Commons category
- Tlingit language
Sources (8)
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Article
Two Tlingit speakers, recorded as part of the International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Tlingit ( English: /ˈklɪŋkɪt/ KLING-kit; Lingít, Tlingit pronunciation: [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́t]) is an endangered language indigenous to Southeast Alaska and Western Canada spoken by the Tlingit people. It is generally agreed to form an independent branch of the Na-Dene language family. Although the number of speakers is declining, there are several revitalization and second-language programs in Southeast Alaska.
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Russian Orthodox Church
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fricative consonant
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Alaska Purchase
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Iñupiaq
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Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse
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aspiration
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Tlingit
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subject–object–verb
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ejective consonant
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labialization
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vowel length
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Categories
Endangered Dené–Yeniseian languagesFirst Nations languages in CanadaIndigenous languages of AlaskaIndigenous languages of the North American SubarcticIndigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest CoastLanguage articles citing Ethnologue 25Language articles without reference fieldLanguage articles with speaker number undatedLanguages of the United StatesLanguages with ISO 639-2 codeNa-Dene languagesNative American language revitalizationNorthern Northwest Coast Sprachbund (North America)Northwest Coast Sprachbund (North America)Official languages of AlaskaSubject–object–verb languagesTlingit culture