Upper Kuskokwim language

Upper Kuskokwim
Dinakʼi
Native to United States
Region Alaska (middle Yukon River, Koyukuk River)
Ethnicity 160 Upper Kuskokwim (2007)[1]
Native speakers
40 (2007)[1]
Latin (Northern Athabaskan alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kuu
Glottolog uppe1438[2]

The Upper Kuskokwim language (also called Kolchan or Goltsan or Dinak'i) is an Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené language family. It is spoken by the Upper Kuskokwim people in the Upper Kuskokwim River villages of Nikolai, Telida, and McGrath, Alaska. About 40 of a total of 160 Upper Kuskokwim people (Dichinanek’ Hwt’ana) still speak the language. A practical orthography of the language was established by Raymond Collins, who in 1964 began linguistic work at Nikolai.

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References

  1. 1 2 Upper Kuskokwim at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Upper Kuskokwim". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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