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Name: Tlingit Type: Language Alternate Names: Tlinkit; Thlinget Spoken in: USA, Canada Number of speakers: 1,200 in United States (2000 census), decreasing. Population total all countries: 1,430. Ethnic population: 10,000 in the USA (1995 M. Krauss) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 355 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 845 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: tli Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian) Parent Subgroup: Tlingit; Tlingitan Isolate; Koluschan (tlin) Brief Description: "Tlingit is the traditional language of the Tlingit people on the southeastern coast of Alaska from Yakutat to Ketchikan, and constitutes a separate branch of the Na-Dene family alongside Eyak and the Athabaskan languages. The total Tlingit population in Alaska (organised as the Sealaska Regional Corporation, divided into 16 village communities) is about 10,000, of whom perhaps as many as 500, none of them children, are fluent speakers of the language. An additional 185 Inland Tlingit speakers live in Canada in several communities in the southern Yukon and northern British Columbia. The only other well-marked local variety is the phonologically archaic Tongass dialect, formerly spoken in the Ketchikan area but now nearly extinct. " Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 23

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable