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580

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North America
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580

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Bearlake is an emergent Athabaskan language within the North Slavey group of Slavey dialects of the Dene complex. It is spoken as a first language by about 580 people (450 of whom use it actively at home) in two communities in the Northwest Territories, Déline, formerly Fort Franklin (460 speakers out of a total population of 615), and Tulita, formerly Fort Norman (up to 120 speakers out of 450 total). At Déline, Bearlake is the lingua franca of a dialectally mixed community and many speakers are also fluent in Dogrib. At Tulita, an unknown number of the speakers of Bearlake are also fluent (or primarily fluent) in Mountain.

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2008

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Northwest Territories

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Two communities in the Northwest Territories, Déline, formerly Fort Franklin, and Tulita, formerly Fort Norman.

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Two communities in the Northwest Territories, Déline, formerly Fort Franklin, and Tulita, formerly Fort Norman.

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2010

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65.2161, -123.4362

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580

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Year of info

2007

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The Northwest Territories

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Spoken at Déline (formerly Fort Franklin) and Tulita (formerly Fort Norman).

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Spoken at Déline (formerly Fort Franklin) and Tulita (formerly Fort Norman).

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Dogrib, Mountain

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
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