South Slavey

E98744

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

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AI-generated illustration of South Slavey

This AI-generated illustration was produced by black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev (1024x1024) from a prompt written by openai/gpt-oss-120b from the entity's label + description.

Prompt

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

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
South Slavey canonical 20
South Slavey language 4
South Slavey Dene 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language ⓘ
First Nations language ⓘ
Indigenous language of North America ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo North Slavey ⓘ
Slavey language continuum ⓘ
linked to: South Slavey
country Canada ⓘ
ethnicGroup Dene ⓘ
Slavey people ⓘ
glottocode sout2960 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Dene Zhatıé ⓘ
Dené Dháh ⓘ
South Slavey Dene ⓘ
linked to: South Slavey
hasDialects Dehcho dialect ⓘ
Fort Smith dialect ⓘ
Hay River dialect ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
polysynthetic ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant clusters ⓘ
tonal contrasts ⓘ
ISO639-3 xsl ⓘ
languageFamily Athabaskan languages ⓘ
linked to: Athabaskan
languagePolicyContext Indigenous Languages Act (Canada) ⓘ
languageStatus endangered ⓘ
officialStatus official language of the Northwest Territories ⓘ
partOf Dene languages ⓘ
recognizedBy Government of the Northwest Territories ⓘ
region Dehcho Region ⓘ
South Slave Region ⓘ
spokenIn Canada ⓘ
Northwest Territories ⓘ
subfamily Northern Athabaskan languages ⓘ
subjectTo language revitalization efforts ⓘ
taughtIn community schools in the Northwest Territories ⓘ
usedBy Dene communities in the Northwest Territories ⓘ
linked to: Dene Nation
usedIn ceremonial contexts ⓘ
local radio programming in the Northwest Territories ⓘ
traditional oral storytelling ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ

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Referenced by (28)

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

South Slavey → closelyRelatedTo → Slavey language continuum ⓘ
linked to: South Slavey
South Slavey → hasAlternativeName → South Slavey Dene ⓘ
linked to: South Slavey
Slavey → hasSubgroup → South Slavey ⓘ
Slavey → hasLanguage → South Slavey language ⓘ
linked to: South Slavey
Fort Providence → localLanguage → South Slavey ⓘ
Hare (Sahtu) language → hasNeighboringLanguage → South Slavey language ⓘ
linked to: South Slavey
Tłı̨chǫ language → closelyRelatedTo → South Slavey ⓘ
Tlicho language → closelyRelatedTo → South Slavey language ⓘ
linked to: South Slavey
Dene languages → hasMember → South Slavey language ⓘ
linked to: South Slavey
North Slavey → closelyRelatedTo → South Slavey ⓘ
Ndilǫ → hasIndigenousLanguage → South Slavey ⓘ
Slavey people → traditionalLanguage → South Slavey ⓘ
Dehcho Region → hasIndigenousLanguage → South Slavey ⓘ
Dene Zhatıé → hasAlternativeName → South Slavey ⓘ
Dene Zhatıé → hasAlternativeName → South Slavey Dene language ⓘ
linked to: South Slavey
Inuvik Region → officialLanguage → South Slavey ⓘ
Zhahti Kue → hasIndigenousLanguage → South Slavey ⓘ
Deh Cho Bridge → languageOfName → South Slavey ⓘ
Dehcho → indigenousLanguageGroup → South Slavey ⓘ
Dehcho → hasIndigenousLanguage → South Slavey ⓘ
Slavey language → hasDialect → South Slavey ⓘ
Dehcho (South Slavey) River system → hasCulturalSignificanceFor → South Slavey Dene ⓘ
linked to: South Slavey