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Name:
Lower Tanana
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Tanana; Nabesna; Tanana (Lower); Tanana, Lower; Minto
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
30 (1995 M. Krauss). Ethnic population: 380 (1995 M. Krauss)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
15
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
30
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
taa
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian)
Parent Subgroup:
Tanana; Tanana-Upper Kuskokwim (tauk)
Brief Description:
"Lower Tanana is an Athabaskan language belonging to the Tanana series. It was originally spoken in a number of villages on the Tanana River in the vicinity of Fairbanks, but now is spoken only at Nenana and Minto. The native population of these two villages is approximately 380, of whom about 30 elderly people speak the languages." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 17
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 Lower Tanana
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