| Deg Xinag, Deg Hit’an | ||
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| Spoken in: | United States | |
| Region: | Alaska (lower Yukon River, Anvik River, Innoko River) | |
| Total speakers: | 15 | |
| Language family: | Dené-Yeniseian Na-Dené Athabaskan-Eyak Athabaskan Northern Athabaskan Deg Xinag, Deg Hit’an |
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| Writing system: | Latin (Northern Athabaskan variant) | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ath | |
| ISO 639-3: | ing | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Alaska ( Аляска Alyaska) is a state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. Anvik River is a 140-mile-long (225 km River in the US state of Alaska. The Innoko River is a River in western Alaska. It flows north from its origin south of Cloudy Mountain in the Kuskoswim Mountains and then flows southwest List of language familiesA language family is a group of Languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the Proto-language of that family Dené-Yeniseian is a proposed relationship between the Yeniseian languages of central Siberia and the Na-Dené languages of northwestern North America Athabaskan or Athabascan (also Athapascan, Athapaskan, Athabasca Indians or Athapaskes) is the name of a large group of closely Northern Athabaskan is a geographic sub-grouping of the Athabaskan language family spoken in the northern part of North America, particularly in Alaska A writing system is a type of Symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in Language. ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages ISO 639 -3 (ISO 639-32007 is an international standard for Language codes The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's | ||
The Deg Xinag language is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Deg Hit’an peoples in Shageluk and Anvik and at Holy Cross along the lower Yukon River in Alaska. Northern Athabaskan is a geographic sub-grouping of the Athabaskan language family spoken in the northern part of North America, particularly in Alaska Deg Hit’an (also Deg Xit’an, Deg Hitan, Degexit’an, Kaiyuhkhotana) is a group of Northern Athabascan peoples in Alaska Shageluk is a city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. Anvik is a city home to the Deg Hit'an people in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. Holy Cross is a city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. Alaska ( Аляска Alyaska) is a state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent About 15 out of a total population of about 275 Deg Hit’an people speak the language.
Engithidong Xugixudhoy (Their Stories of Long Ago), a collection of traditional folk tales in the Deg Xinag language by the elder Belle Deacon, was published in 1987 by the Alaska Native Language Center. The Alaska Native Language Center is a research center focusing on the research and documentation of the Alaska's Native languages A literacy manual with accompanying audiotapes was published in 1993.
External links
- Deg Xinag - Language of the Deg Hit'an
- Deg Xinag (ANLC)
- Rescuing a language: College course unites far-flung students and elders in an effort to save Deg Xinag
Bibliography
- Alaskan Native Language Center. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
- Gordon, Raymond G. , Jr. (Ed. ). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed. ). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
- Ekada, Patricia J. "Athabascan Culture-From the Lower Yukon Area". Retrieved on 2008-03-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor.
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