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Name:
Holikachuk
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Upper Innoko; Innoko
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
12 (1995 M. Krauss). Ethnic population: 200 (1995 M. Krauss)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
5
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
12
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
hoi
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian)
Parent Subgroup:
Koyukon-Ingalik; Ingalik-Koyukon (inko)
Brief Description:
"Holikachuk is a moribund Athabaskan language of west-central Alaska, formerly spoken by a group that lived at Holikachuk on the Innoko River, but which is now located at Grayling on the lower Yukon River. Holikachuk is intermediate between Ingalik and Koyukon, and was only identified as a separate language in the 1970s. The total population is about 200, of whom six or seven speak the language." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 15
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Holikachuk
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