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Name:
Sekani
Type:
Language
Spoken in:
Canada
Number of speakers:
35 (1997 S. Hargus). Ethnic population: 600 (1982 SIL and 1997 S. Hargus)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
75
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
35
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
sek
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian)
Parent Subgroup:
Southeastern Cordillera; Beaver-Sekani (beav)
Brief Description:
"Sekani is an Athabaskan language, spoken in two remote communities in north-central British Columbia, Ware and Fort McLeod, as well as by some residents of the Beaver community of Prophet River and the Tahltan community of Iskut. A fair degree of mutual intelligibility exists between Sekani and Beaver, Kaska, and Tahltan. There are about 50 speakers. It is not spoken by children as a first language. There are few if any first-language speakers under 35." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 22
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 Sekani
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