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Name:
Southern Tutchone
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Tutchone; Tuchone; Tutchone, Southern
Spoken in:
Canada
Number of speakers:
200 (Krauss 1995). Ethnic population: 1,400 (Krauss 1995)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
40
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
200
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
tce
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian)
Parent Subgroup:
Tutchone; Tuchone (tutc)
Brief Description:
"Southern Tutchone is an Athabaskan language (closely related to Northern Tutchone) spoken in the southwestern Yukon in settlements at Aishihik, Burwash Landing, Champagne, Haines Junction, Kloo Lake, Klukshu, and Lake Laberge, as well as in the city of Whitehorse. There are about 200 speakers out of a total population of 1,400." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 23
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered
Map of Southern Tutchone
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