Lower Tanana language

Lower Tanana language

Infobox Language
name=(Lower) Tanana
states=United States
region=Alaska (middle Yukon River, Koyukuk River)
speakers=30
iso1=
iso2= ath
iso3= taa
familycolor=Dené-Yeniseian
fam2=Na-Dené
fam3=Athabaskan-Eyak
fam4=Athabaskan
fam5=Northern Athabaskan
script=Latin (Northern Athabaskan variant)

Lower Tanana (also Tanana) is an endangered Athabaskan language spoken in Interior Alaska in the lower Tanana River villages of Minto and Nenana. Of about 380 Tanana people in the two villages, about 30 still speak the language.

Bibliography

* Charlie, Teddy. 1992. Ode Setl'oghwnh Da': Long After I Am Gone. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center. ISBN 1-55500-045-2
* Kari, James, Isabel Charlie, Peter John & Evelyn Alexander. 1991. Lower Tanana Athabaskan Listening and Writing Exercises. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
* Tuttle, Siri. 1998. Metrical and Tonal Structures in Tanana Athabaskan. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington.


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