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Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ ʔiːjaːq ]
- Native to
- United States
- Region
- Cordova, Alaska
- Ethnicity
- Eyak
- Extinct
- January 21, 2008, with the death of Marie Smith Jones , L2 : 1 fluent ( Guillaume Leduey )
- Revival
- early 2010s
- Language family
- Na-Dené Athabaskan –Eyak Eyak
- Writing system
- Latin
- Official language in
- Alaska
- Iso 639 3
- eya
- Linguist list
- eya.html
- Glottolog
- eyak1241
- Elp
- Eyak
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Eyak is an extinct Na-Dené language, historically spoken by the Eyak people, indigenous to south-central Alaska, near the mouth of the Copper River. The name Eyak comes from a Chugach Sugpiaq name (Igya'aq) for an Eyak village at the mouth of the Eyak River.
The closest relatives of Eyak are the Athabaskan languages. The Eyak–Athabaskan group forms a basic division of the Na-Dené language family, the other being Tlingit.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eyak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.