Beaver > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Beaver
Type:
Language
Spoken in:
Canada
Number of speakers:
300 (Kinkade 1991). Ethnic population: 600 (1987 SIL)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
195
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
300
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
bea
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian)
Parent Subgroup:
Southeastern Cordillera; Beaver-Sekani (beav)
Brief Description:
"Beaver is an Athabaskan language, spoken in eastern British Columbia (in the communities of Doig, Blueberry, Hudson Hope, and Prophet River) and in northwestern Alberta (in the communities of Horse Lakes, Clear Hills, Boyer River, and Rock Lane). There are about 300 speakers. Although Beaver is partially intelligible to speakers of emergent languages in the Dene dialect complex, for political and geographical reasons it is not usually considered a Dene language." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 11
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable
Map of Beaver
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