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Name:
Dogrib
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Thlingchadine; The Detah-Ndilo dialect developed from intermarriage between the Yellowknife subdivision of the Chipewyan and the Dogrib. Lexical similarity 84% with Southern Slavey; 82% with Northern Slavey.
Spoken in:
Canada
Number of speakers:
2,110 (2001 SIL). 12% monolinguals. Ethnic population: 3,220
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
1675
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
2110
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
dgr
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian)
Parent Subgroup:
Dene; Hare-Chipewyan (harc)
Brief Description:
"Dogrib is an Athabaskan language of the Dene complex spoken in the Northwest Territories between Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake. It is the first language of 2,470 people (of whom about 1,350 regularly use it in the home), primarily in five small communities: Detah (105 speakers out of a total population of 190), Rae Lakes (210 out of 260), Rae-Edzo (1,010 out of 1,655), Snare Lake (100 out of 135), and Wha Ti (325 out of 415). There are also about 220 speakers in the city of Yellowknife, as well as an unknown number of speakers in the dialectially mixed community of Déline (Fort Franklin), where Bearlake is the lingua franca." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 14
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Dogrib
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