Upper Tanana

E349734

Upper Tanana is an Athabaskan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Upper Tanana people of eastern Alaska and neighboring parts of Canada.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Upper Tanana canonical 10

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language ⓘ
Indigenous language of North America ⓘ
Native American language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Gwichʼin ⓘ
linked to: Gwich’in

Hän ⓘ
Tanacross ⓘ
continent North America ⓘ
country Canada ⓘ
United States ⓘ
endangeredStatus severely endangered ⓘ
ethnicGroup Upper Tanana people ⓘ
glottologName Upper Tanana ⓘ
hasAlternateName Upper Tanana Athabascan ⓘ
Upper Tanana Athabaskan ⓘ
hasDialect Healy Lake dialect ⓘ
Northway dialect ⓘ
Scottie Creek dialect ⓘ
Tetlin dialect ⓘ
hasGlottocode uppe1395 ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ
vowel length contrast ⓘ
ISO639-3 tau ⓘ
languageBranch Na-Dene language family ⓘ
linked to: Na-Dene
languageCodeType ISO 639-3 ⓘ
languageFamily Athabaskan languages ⓘ
linked to: Athabaskan
partOf Alaska Native languages ⓘ
First Nations languages of Canada ⓘ
region Upper Tanana River region ⓘ
scriptDirection left-to-right ⓘ
spokenIn Alaska ⓘ
Canada ⓘ
Northwest Territories ⓘ
United States ⓘ
Yukon ⓘ
eastern Alaska ⓘ
subgroupOf Northern Athabaskan languages ⓘ
subjectTo language revitalization efforts ⓘ
typologicalFeature polysynthetic morphology ⓘ
tone language ⓘ
verb-centered morphology ⓘ
usedBy Upper Tanana communities in Alaska ⓘ
Upper Tanana communities in Yukon ⓘ
usedIn ceremonial contexts ⓘ
traditional oral narratives ⓘ
traditional songs ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ahtna Athabaskan → relatedEthnicGroup → Upper Tanana ⓘ
Upper Tanana → glottologName → Upper Tanana ⓘ
Lower Tanana → neighboringLanguage → Upper Tanana ⓘ
Athabaskan → includesLanguage → Upper Tanana ⓘ
Athabascan peoples → hasSubgroup → Upper Tanana ⓘ
Chisana River → languageOfName → Upper Tanana ⓘ
Ahtena → relatedEthnicGroup → Upper Tanana ⓘ