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Eyak

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Also known as Eyak language, eya

indigenous language of North America

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

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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.