Endangered Languages Project - Dän kʼè (Southern Tutchone)

Dän kʼè (Southern Tutchone)

^{[aka Dákwänjē, Dän kʼè, Dän kʼè Kwänje]}

Classification: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit

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severely endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Dákwänjē, Dän kʼè, Dän kʼè Kwänje, Tutchone, Tuchone, Tutchone, Southern, Southern Tutchone,
CLASSIFICATION		Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit, Athabaskan, Northern Athabaskan
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		tce
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge

Severely endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~200
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1,400

TRANSMISSION

PLACES: Canada;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in the southwestern Yukon in settlements at Aishihik, Burwash Landing, Champagne, Haines Junction, Kloo Lake, Klukshu, and Lake Laberge, as well as in the city of Whitehorse.

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
200
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1,400
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number and ethnic population data: (Krauss 1995).

140 (2011 census). Ethnic population: 1,400 (Golla 2007) (2013).

TRANSMISSION

PLACES: Canada;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Southwest Yukon Territory, Whitehorse, Aishihik, Burwash Landing, Champagne, Haines Junction, Kloo Lake, Klukshu, Lake Laberge settlements.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
40
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Canada;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Yukon

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
200
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

60.7796,-137.4983

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing