Also Known As:
ᑕᗸᒡ, Carrier, les Porteurs, Takulie, Takelne, Dakelhne, Central Carrier, Upper Carrier, Nagailer, Taculli
Dialects & Varieties
- A lot of variation in 12 different dialects ( First People's Cultural Council
- 2014).
First Peoples' Language Map of British Columbia
2012. "First Peoples' Language Map of British Columbia." edited by First Peoples' Cultural Council. Online: http://www.maps.fphlcc.ca/.
Severely Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
731
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 4
Less than half of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing at an accelerated pace.
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Transmission
Transmission 3
Some adults in the community are speakers, but the language is not spoken by children.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
1,484
Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
11,807
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
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Location and Context
Countries
Canada
Location Description
British Columbia
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
None
Number of Other Language Speakers:
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Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Recent Resources
In Carrier, an Athabaskan language of the Central Interior of British Columbia, the negative particl
This document explains the roman writing system used by Father Adrien-Gabriel Morice in his scholarl
Discusses the problems posed by the extreme complexity and structure of the Athabaskan verb for maki