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Name:
Sarcee
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Sarsi; Tsuut'ina; Tsutina; Tsuu T'ina
Spoken in:
Canada
Number of speakers:
50 (Kinkade 1991). Ethnic population: 600 (1977 SIL)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
75
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
50
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
srs
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian)
Parent Subgroup:
Sarcee (sarc)
Brief Description:
"Sarcee (Tsuut'ina) is the only northern Athabaskan language spoken by a Plains group and, primarily on phonological grounds, constitutes its own subgroup within the Athabaskan family. It is spoken fluently by fewer than 10 elderly people on or near the Sarcee Reserve, east of Calgary, Alberta, along with a small number of semi-speakers and passive speakers." 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 Sarcee
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