Tagish language

Tagish language

Tagish is an endangered Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Tagish people in the Yukon Territory in Canada. It is almost extinct as there are only two fluent speakers left.

Linguistically, Tagish, along with Kaska and Tahltan proper, is a lect of Tahltan.

ee also

* Tagish
* Tahltan

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tgx Ethnologue]
*Yukon Native Language Centre's [http://www.ynlc.ca/languages/tg/tg.html introduction to the Tagish Language]
* [http://www.ynlc.ca/materials/lessons/wrenl/index.html Audio files] of common words and expressions


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