Tanacross > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Tanacross
Type:
Language
Alternate Name:
Transitional 2
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
35 (1997 G. Holton). 3 in Healy Lake dialect, 32 in Mansfield-Ketchumstuck. Ethnic population: 120 (1997 G. Holton)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
50
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
35
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
tcb
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:
"Tanacross is an Athabaskan language belonging to the Tanana series, spoken at Healy Lake, Dot Lake, and Tanacross on the middle Tanana River of central Alaska. The total population is about 220, of whom about 60 speak the language." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 23
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 Tanacross
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