|
Tanacross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3048 words) |
 | Tanacross is the ancestral language of the Mansfield-Ketchumstuk and Healy Lake-Joseph Village bands of Athabaskan people, whose ancestral territory encompassed an area bounded by the Goodpaster River to the west, the Alaska Range to the south, the Fortymile and Tok Rivers to the east, and the Yukon Uplands to the north. |
| A second dialect of Tanacross is spoken at Healy Lake and Dot Lake to the west, and formerly at Joseph Village, and is linguistically distinguished by the retention of schwa suffixes (Krauss 1973a). |
| Tanacross is a member of the Athabaskan family of languages, a well-established genetic grouping whose members occupy three discontinuous areas of North America: the Northern group in northwestern Canada and Alaska, the Pacific Coast in northern California, Oregon, and southern Washington, and the Apachean group in the desert southwest of the continental United States. |
| Tanacross - definition of Tanacross in Encyclopedia (100 words) |
| Tanacross is an endangered Athabaskan language spoken near Tanana Crossing in Alaska. |
| Tanacross is spoken by about 60 people, and is in danger of dying out. |
| The linguist Gary Holton has compiled a grammar of Tanacross, at least preserving some of it for possible revival in the future. |
Feeds |
Contact