Eel River Athabaskan

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Eel River Athabaskan is a group of closely related, now mostly extinct Athabaskan languages traditionally spoken by Indigenous peoples along California’s Eel River.

All labels observed (5)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language group ⓘ
Na-Dene language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Hupa ⓘ
Mattole-Bear River Athabaskan ⓘ
continent North America ⓘ
country United States ⓘ
documentedBy linguistic fieldwork in the 19th century ⓘ
linguistic fieldwork in the 20th century ⓘ
geographicFeatureAssociated Eel River ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Eel River Athabascan ⓘ
Eel River Athapaskan ⓘ
hasBranch Northern Eel River Athabaskan ⓘ
Southern Eel River Athabaskan ⓘ
hasEthnicGroup Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria ⓘ
Lassik people ⓘ
Nongatl people NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sinkyone people ⓘ
Wailaki people ⓘ
hasGrammaticalFeature prefixing verb morphology ⓘ
pronominal prefixes on verbs ⓘ
hasMemberLanguage Bear River language ⓘ
Lassik ⓘ
Nongatl ⓘ
Sinkyone ⓘ
Wailaki ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant clusters ⓘ
tone absent ⓘ
isPartOf California indigenous languages area ⓘ
North American indigenous languages ⓘ
languageFamily Athabaskan ⓘ
Na-Dene ⓘ
region California ⓘ
spokenIn Eel River region ⓘ
linked to: Eel River Basin

United States ⓘ
northwestern California ⓘ
status mostly extinct ⓘ
severely endangered ⓘ
subclassOf Athabaskan languages ⓘ
Pacific Coast Athabaskan ⓘ
indigenous languages of California ⓘ
traditionalSpeakers Athabaskan peoples of California ⓘ
Indigenous peoples of the Eel River ⓘ
typology polysynthetic language ⓘ
verb-centered morphology ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Pacific Coast Athabaskan → hasMemberLanguage → Eel River Athabaskan ⓘ
Eel River Athabaskan → hasAlternativeName → Eel River Athabascan ⓘ
linked to: Eel River Athabaskan
Eel River Athabaskan → hasAlternativeName → Eel River Athapaskan ⓘ
linked to: Eel River Athabaskan
Eel River Athabaskan → hasBranch → Northern Eel River Athabaskan ⓘ
linked to: Eel River Athabaskan
Eel River Athabaskan → hasBranch → Southern Eel River Athabaskan ⓘ
linked to: Eel River Athabaskan