Dena’ina language

E350021

The Dena’ina language is an Athabaskan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Dena’ina people of south-central Alaska, including the Cook Inlet region.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Denaʼina language 5
Dena’ina language canonical 3
Dena’inaq’ 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language
Indigenous language of North America
endangered language
closelyRelatedTo Ahtna language
Deg Xinag language
Koyukon language
country United States
ethnicGroup Dena’ina people
hasAlternativeName Tanaina language
hasAlternativeSpelling Dena’inaq’ language
linked to: Dena’ina language
hasDialects Inland Dena’ina
linked to: Dena’ina people

Lower Inlet Dena’ina
Outer Inlet Dena’ina
Upper Inlet Dena’ina
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verb templates
polysynthetic morphology
prefixing verb morphology
hasNotableResearcher James Kari
Joan M. Tenenbaum
hasNotableSpeaker Peter Kalifornsky
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant-rich inventory
toneless
hasResource dictionaries
grammars
text collections
hasRevitalizationEfforts community language classes
documentation projects
university-based courses
ISO639-3 tfn
languageFamily Na-Dene language family
linked to: Na-Dene
languageOf Dena’ina Ełnena (Dena’ina homeland)
linked to: Denaʼina
nativeName Dena’inaq’
linked to: Dena’ina language
region Cook Inlet region
linked to: Cook Inlet

south-central Alaska
linked to: Southcentral Alaska
spokenIn Anchorage area
Iliamna Lake region
linked to: Iliamna, Alaska

Kenai Peninsula
Lake Clark region
status severely endangered
subfamilyOf Northern Athabaskan languages
taughtAt Kenai Peninsula College
University of Alaska Anchorage
usedFor ceremonial speech
oral tradition
place names in south-central Alaska
traditional stories
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.

Alaska Natives includesLanguage Dena’ina language
Northern Athabaskan languages hasMember Denaʼina language
linked to: Dena’ina language
Tokositna Glacier hasLanguageOrigin Denaʼina language
linked to: Dena’ina language
Dena’ina language nativeName Dena’inaq’
linked to: Dena’ina language
Dena’ina language hasAlternativeSpelling Dena’inaq’ language
linked to: Dena’ina language
Pedro Bay, Alaska primaryLanguageHistorically Denaʼina language
linked to: Dena’ina language
Knik River hasNameOrigin Denaʼina language
linked to: Dena’ina language
Dena’ina people language Dena’ina language
Koyukon Athabaskan closelyRelatedTo Dena’ina language
Southern Alaska hasIndigenousLanguage Denaʼina language
subject linked to: southern Alaska
linked to: Dena’ina language