Na-Dene language of southeast Alaska and western Canada
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Tlingit
Lingít
Pronunciation
/ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ/
Native to
United States, Canada
Region
Alaska, British Columbia, Yukon, Washington
Ethnicity
10,000 Tlingit (1995)[1]
Native speakers
~50 highly proficient first language speakers in United States, 10 highly proficient second language speakers (2020)[2] 120 in Canada (2016 census)[3]
Language family
Dené–Yeniseian?
Na-Dene
Tlingit
Writing system
Tlingit alphabet (Latin script)
Official status
Official language in
Alaska[4]
Language codes
ISO 639-2
tli
ISO 639-3
tli
Glottolog
tlin1245
ELP
Tlingit
Tlingit is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Lingít "People of the Tides"
People
Tlingit
Language
Lingít
Country
Tlingit Aaní
Two Tlingit speakers, recorded in the United States.
The Tlingit language (English: /ˈklɪŋkɪt/ⓘKLING-kit;[5]LingítAthapascan pronunciation:[ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ])[6] is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada and is a branch of the Na-Dene language family. Extensive effort is being put into revitalization programs in Southeast Alaska to revive and preserve the Tlingit language and culture.
Missionaries of the Russian Orthodox Church were the first to develop a written version of Tlingit by using the Cyrillic script to record and translate it when the Russian Empire had contact with Alaska and the coast of North America down to Sonoma County, California. After the Alaska Purchase, English-speaking missionaries from the United States developed a written version of the language with the Latin alphabet.
^Tlingit language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^"2020 Biennial Report to the Governor and Legislature" (PDF). The Alaska Native Language Preservation & Advisory Council. p. 6. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
^"Census in Brief: The Aboriginal languages of First Nations people, Métis and Inuit". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
^Chappell, Bill (21 April 2014). "Alaska OKs Bill Making Native Languages Official". NPR.
^Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
The Tlingitlanguage (English: /ˈklɪŋkɪt/ KLING-kit; Lingít Athapascan pronunciation: [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]) is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska...
twenty-nine (229) federally recognized Tribes of Alaska. Their language is the Tlingitlanguage (natively Lingít, pronounced [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]), in which the name...
The Tlingitlanguage has been recorded in a number of orthographies over the two hundred years since European contact. The first transcriptions of Tlingit...
Athabaskan languages. The Eyak–Athabaskan group forms a basic division of the Na-Dené language family, the other being Tlingit. Numerous Tlingit place names...
Mendenhall Glacier (in Tlingitlanguage “Sít”) is a glacier about 13.6 miles (21.9 km) long located in Mendenhall Valley, about 12 miles (19 km) from downtown...
Upward Sun River site in 2013, named this new group Ancient Beringians. The Tlingit people developed a society with a matrilineal kinship system of property...
other indigenous languages, Tlingit is critically endangered. Less than 100 fluent Elders existed as of 2017. From 2013 to 2014, the language activist, author...
Proto-Athabaskan language. This resembles both Tlingit and Eyak much more than most of the daughter languages in the Athabaskan family. Although Ethnologue...
The Tlingitlanguage of the Alaska Panhandle has ten uvular consonants, all of which are voiceless obstruents: And the extinct Ubykh language of Turkey...
their liturgy into the Tlingitlanguage. After Christianization, the Tlingit belief system began to erode. Today, some young Tlingits look back towards what...
Lake. The language originally spoken by the Teslin Tlingit or Deisleen Ḵwáan (″Big Sinew Tribe″) is Tlingit. Together with the Taku River Tlingit or Áa Tlein...
is named for its projected thumb-like appearance. Its name in the Tlingitlanguage means "the mountain that never flooded" and is said to have been a...
A portion of the Bible, Matthew's gospel, was first translated into Tlingit of Alaska by Ivan Nadezhdin of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1859. Although...
Trench, being replaced by the Pacific Plate. The name Kula is from a Tlingitlanguage word meaning "all gone". As the name suggests, the Kula Plate was entirely...
border which cuts through Dixon Entrance south of Prince of Wales Island (Tlingit: Taan) in Southeast Alaska, United States; Haida from K'iis Gwaii in the...
phonetics of Tlingit", Anthropological Linguistics, 43 (2): 135–176, JSTOR 30028779 Chen, Qiguang [陈其光]. 2001. "A Brief Introduction of Bana Language [巴那语概况]"...
Aurel (1956). The Tlingit Indians. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 194–204. Kan, Sergei (1999). Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian...
the Kurdish and the Tlingitlanguage to represent /xʷ/; see List of Latin-script digraphs ⟨x̱w⟩, a digraph used in Alaskan Tlingit to represent /χʷ/; see...
Global Information
Alaska[4]
