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Name:
Ingalik
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Kaiyuh-khotana; Deg Hit'an; Deg Xinag; Degexit'an; "Ingalik"; "Ingalit"; Deg Xit'an
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
25 (1997 S. Hargus), decreasing. Ethnic population: 250 to 300 (Krauss 1997); 19 (2000 census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
14
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
25
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
ing
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:
"Ingalik (Deg Xinag) is an Athabaskan language of west-central Alaska, spoken at Shageluk and Anvik and by the Athabaskans in the multilingual community at Holy Cross on the lower Yukon River. Of a total population of about 275, about 40 speak the language." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 15-16
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Ingalik
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