Tlingit
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language of southeast Alaska and western Canada
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- /ɬɪ̀nkɪ́t/
- Native to
- United States, Canada
- Region
- Alaska , British Columbia , Yukon , Washington
- Ethnicity
- 10,000 Tlingit (1995)
- Speakers
- ~50 highly-proficient L1 speakers, 10 highly-proficient L2 speakers (2020, United States) , 120 in Canada (2016 census)
- Language family
- Na-Dene Tlingit
- Dialects
- Northern Transitional Southern Tongass †
- Writing system
- Tlingit alphabet ( Latin script )
- Official language in
- Alaska
- Iso 639 2
- tli
- Iso 639 3
- tli
- Glottolog
- tlin1245
- Elp
- Tlingit
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Two Tlingit speakers, recorded as part of the International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Tlingit ( English: /ˈklɪŋkɪt/ KLING-kit; Lingít, Tlingit pronunciation: [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́t]) is an endangered language indigenous to Southeast Alaska and Western Canada spoken by the Tlingit people. It is generally agreed to form an independent branch of the Na-Dene language family. Although the number of speakers is declining, there are several revitalization and second-language programs in Southeast Alaska.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tlingit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.