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Name:
Eyak
Type:
Language
Once Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
No known speakers. Last speaker died January 2008. Ethnic population: 50 (Krauss 1995)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
1
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
eya
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian)
Parent Subgroup:
Eyak (eyak)
Brief Description:
"Eyak, the only member of its branch of the Na-Dene family, was spoken in the nineteenth century along the south-central Alaska coast from Yakutat to the Copper River. Today, about 50 of the approximately 500 members of the Eyak Village corporation recognise Eyak or part-Eyak ancestry (most of the others are Chugach). As of 2001 there was only one remaining speaker, born in 1920 and living in Anchorage." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 14
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Eyak
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