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Name:
Northern Tutchone
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Tutchone; Tuchone; Tutchone (Northern); Tutchone, Northern; Selkirk
Spoken in:
Canada
Number of speakers:
200 (Krauss 1995). Ethnic population: 1,000 (Krauss 1995)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
115
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
200
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
ttm
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian)
Parent Subgroup:
Tutchone; Tuchone (tutc)
Brief Description:
"Northern Tutchone is an Athabaskan language (closely related to Southern Tutchone) spoken in the Yukon communities of Mayo, Pelly Crossing, Stewart Crossing and Carmacks. There are about 200 speakers out of a total population of 1,100. Early documentation of Northern Tutchone was carried out in the 1890s by the Anglican Archdeacon Thomas Canham, but most of his materials remain in manuscript." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 20
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered
Map of Northern Tutchone
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