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Name:
Tsetsaut
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Mountain; Ts'ets'aut
Once Spoken in:
Canada
Code:
txc
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
LINGUIST List
Families:
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian)
Parent Subgroup:
Tsetsaut (tsts)
Brief Description:
"Tsetsaut was an Athabaskan language formerly spoken on Portland Canal, on the north coast of British Columbia adjacent to Nass-Gitksan territory. It is known exclusively from a single vocabulary collected by Boas in 1894, but the data are sufficient to show that Tsetsaut formed its own distinct subgroup within the Athabaskan family. The language has been extinct for over a century and the Tsetsaut people have been absorbed into neighbouring tribes." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 24
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Tsetsaut
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