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Name: Tagish Type: Language Once Spoken in: Canada Number of speakers: 2 (Krauss 1995). Ethnic population: 400 possibly (Krauss 1995) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 2 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: tgx Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian) Parent Subgroup: Central Cordillera; Tahltan Cluster; Tahltan-Kaska; Tahltan-Tagish-Kaska; Nahanni (tahl) Brief Description: "Tagish is an Athabaskan language, closely related to Tahltan and Kaska, that was spoken until the mid nineteenth century around the lakes at the head of the Yukon River south of Whitehorse. In the later nineteenth century the Tagish community shifted to Tlingit and by the mid-twentieth century only a handful of older people remembered Taish from their childhood. As of 2001 there remains one semi-fluent speaker and another elderly speaker who is deaf." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 23

Endangerment Status

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Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered