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Name: Kaska Type: Language Alternate Names: Nahani; Caska; Eastern Nahane; Nahane Spoken in: Canada Number of speakers: 400 (Krauss 1995). Ethnic population: 900 (Krauss 1995) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 155 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 400 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: kkz Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian) Parent Subgroup: Central Cordillera; Tahltan Cluster; Tahltan-Kaska; Tahltan-Tagish-Kaska; Nahanni (tahl) Brief Description: "Kaska is an Athabaskan language spoken in the southeastern Yukon at Ross River, Watson Lake and Upper Liard, and in northern British Columbia at Lower Post, Fireside, Good hope Lake, Dease Lake and Muncho Lake. In all these communities there is perhaps a total of 250 fluent speakers and another 150 passive speakers. Kaska territory adjoins that of Tahltan (as well as the extinct Tagish) on the southwest and Sekani on the southeast, and a high degree of mutual intelligibility exists between these languages and the adjoining dialects of Kaska." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 16

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable