North Slavey

E389984

North Slavey is an Athabaskan Indigenous language spoken primarily by the Slavey (Dene) people in Canada’s Northwest Territories.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
North Slavey canonical 8
Dogrib 3
North Slavey Dene 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language
Dene language
Indigenous language
belongsTo Dené-Yeniseian (proposed) macro-family
closelyRelatedTo Bearlake language
South Slavey
country Canada
ethnicity Dehcho Dene
Sahtu Dene
linked to: Dene peoples
glottocode nort2940
hasAlternativeName Dene Zhatie (Northern variety)
linked to: North Slavey

North Slave
North Slavey Dene
linked to: North Slavey

Sahtúot’ı̨nę Yatı̨́
hasDialects Dehcho dialect
Fort Good Hope dialect
Sahtu dialect
hasEducationalMaterial bilingual curriculum resources
children’s storybooks
orthography guides
hasMedia church services
radio broadcasts
hasMorphologicalFeature polysynthetic morphology
verb-centered morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory
tonal contrasts
hasRegulatoryBody Sahtu Divisional Education Council
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant
ISO639-3Code scs
languageFamily Athabaskan languages
languageStatus endangered
partOf Dene languages
recognizedBy Government of the Northwest Territories
region Mackenzie River Valley
linked to: Mackenzie Valley
spokenBy Dene people
linked to: Dene peoples

Slavey people
spokenIn Canada
Northwest Territories
subfamily Northern Athabaskan languages
taughtIn schools in Northwest Territories
undergoing language revitalization efforts
usedBy First Nations communities
usedFor community radio programming
cultural ceremonies
oral tradition
usedIn Dehcho region
linked to: Dehcho

Sahtu region
linked to: Sahtu Region
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (16)

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

Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories languageUsed Dogrib
linked to: North Slavey
South Slavey closelyRelatedTo North Slavey
Slavey hasSubgroup North Slavey
Slavey hasLanguage North Slavey language
linked to: North Slavey
Fort Good Hope hasPrimaryLanguage North Slavey
Dogrib language name Dogrib
linked to: North Slavey
Dogrib language exonym Dogrib
linked to: North Slavey
Hare (Sahtu) language hasAlternativeName North Slavey Dene
linked to: North Slavey
Tłı̨chǫ language closelyRelatedTo North Slavey
Dene languages hasMember North Slavey language
linked to: North Slavey
North Slavey hasAlternativeName North Slavey Dene
linked to: North Slavey
North Slavey hasAlternativeName Dene Zhatie (Northern variety)
linked to: North Slavey