- Dene Suline language
Infobox Language
name=Dene Suline
nativename=Dëne Sųłiné
states=Canada
region=NorthernAlberta ,Saskatchewan ,Manitoba ; southernNorthwest Territories andNunavut
speakers=11,895 [http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/topics/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?ALEVEL=3&APATH=3&CATNO=&DETAIL=0&DIM=&DS=99&FL=0&FREE=0&GAL=0&GC=99&GK=NA&GRP=1&IPS=&METH=0&ORDER=1&PID=89189&PTYPE=88971&RL=0&S=1&ShowAll=No&StartRow=1&SUB=705&Temporal=2006&Theme=70&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF= Statistics Canada: 2006 Census] ]
iso2=chp
iso3=chp
familycolor=Dené-Yeniseian
fam2=Na-Dené
fam3=Athabaskan-Eyak
fam4=Athabaskan
fam5=Northern AthabaskanDene Suline (also Dëne Sųłiné, Dene Sųłiné, Chipewyan, Dene Suliné, Dëne Suliné, Dene Soun’liné or just Dene) is the
language spoken by theChipewyan people of centralCanada . It is a part of the Athabaskan family and therefore related to theNavajo language . Dene Suline has over 11,000 speakers in Canada, mostly inSaskatchewan ,Alberta andthe Northwest Territories , but only has official status in the Northwest Territories alongside 8 other aboriginal languages: Cree, Dogrib, IPA|Gwichʼin, Inuktitut,Inuinnaqtun ,Inuvialuktun , North Slavey and South Slavey. [http://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/PDF/ACTS/Official_Languages.pdf Northwest Territories Official Languages Act, 1988] (as amended 1988, 1991-1992, 2003)]ounds
Consonants
The 39 consonants of Dene Suline:
Dene Suline also has 9 oral and nasal
diphthong s of the form "vowel" + IPA|/j/.Tone
Dene Suline has two tones:
* high
* lowReferences
ee also
* Chipewyan Syllabics
External links
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=chp Chipewyan] at
Ethnologue
* [http://www.sicc.sk.ca/heritage/sils/ourlanguages/dene/dene.html Our Languages: Dene] (Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre)
** [http://www.sicc.sk.ca/heritage/sils/ourlanguages/dene/history/index.html history & background]
** [http://www.sicc.sk.ca/heritage/sils/ourlanguages/dene/reserves/index.html reservations]
** [http://www.sicc.sk.ca/heritage/sils/ourlanguages/dene/reserves/map.html reservation maps]
** [http://www.sicc.sk.ca/heritage/sils/ourlanguages/dene/preservation/index.html preservation/revitalization]
** [http://www.sicc.sk.ca/heritage/sils/ourlanguages/dene/soundsystem/alphabet.html alphabet]
** [http://www.sicc.sk.ca/heritage/sils/ourlanguages/dene/grammar/index.html grammar]
** [http://www.sicc.sk.ca/heritage/sils/ourlanguages/dene/commonterms/index.html terms/phrases] (includes sound files)Bibliography
* Cook, Eung-Do. (2004). "A grammar of Dëne Sųłiné (Chipewyan)". Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics - Special Athabaskan Number, Memoir 17. Winnipeg: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics. ISBN 0-921064-17-9.
* Cook, Eung-Do. 2006. "The Patterns of Consonantal Acquisition and Change in Chipewyan (Dene Suline)". "International Journal of American Linguistics". 72, no. 2: 236.
* De Reuse, Willem. 2006. "A Grammar of Dene Suline (Chipewyan) (Cook)". "International Journal of American Linguistics". 72, no. 4: 535.
* Elford, Leon W. "Dene sųłiné yati ditł'ísé = Dene sųłiné reader". Prince Albert, SK: Northern Canada Mission Distributors, 2001. ISBN 1896968287
* Gessner, S. 2005. "Properties of Tone in Dene Suline". Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science. Series IV, "Current Issues in Linguistic Theory". 269: 229-248.
* 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).
* Li, Fang-Kuei. (1946). Chipewyan. In C. Osgood & H. Hoijer (Eds.), "Linguistic structures of native America" (pp. 398-423). New York: The Viking Fund.
* Osgood, Cornelius; & Hoijer, Harry (Eds.). (1946). "Linguistic structures of native America". Viking fund publications in anthropology (No. 6). New York: The Viking Fund. (Reprinted 1963, 1965, 1967, & 1971, New York: Johnson Reprint Corp.).
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