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5

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 Report on the status of B.C. First Nations Languages
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

5

Domains of Use

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Semi-speakers

24

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Ethnic Population

518

Non-monolingual speakers

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For speakers in British Columbia

Year of info

2018

Location and Context

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

155

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Canada;

Coordinates

61.9751,-132.4544

Location description

Yukon, British Columbia

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Yukon, British Columbia

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

400

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Ethnic Population

900

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More about speakers

400 (Krauss 1995). Ethnic population: 900 (Krauss 1995).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Canada;

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Location description

Southeast Yukon Territory, Watson Lake, Ross River, and Lower Post; northern British Columbia border area, Lower Post, Fireside, Good Hope Lake, Dease Lake, Muncho Lake.

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Southeast Yukon Territory, Watson Lake, Ross River, and Lower Post; northern British Columbia border area, Lower Post, Fireside, Good Hope Lake, Dease Lake, Muncho Lake.

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

16

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62

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Ethnic Population

540

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

16 (FPCC 2014). 62 semi-speakers (FPCC 2014). Ethnic population: 540 (FPCC 2014).

Year of info

2016

Location and Context

Countries

Canada

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English

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

23

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35

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Ethnic Population

1,550

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http://maps.fphlcc.ca/danezage

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Canada

Coordinates

59.3000000, -128.6900000

Location description

British Columbia

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British Columbia

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

230-400

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"An Athabaskan language spoken in the southeastern Yukon at Ross River, Watson Lake and Upper Liard, and in northern British Columbia at Lower Post, Fireside, Good Hope Lake, Dease Lake and Muncho Lake." About 250 people are fluent speakers, and about 150 are passive speakers. (Golla 2007:54)

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Yukon, British Columbia

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Canada

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"The Yukon Native Language Centre conducts annual Literacy Workshops and produces teaching and learning materials. Kaska is taught at schools in Watson Lake and Ross River in the Yukon, and at Lower Post and Good Hope Lake in British Columbia. In 1997 the Kaska Tribal Council, working with the linguist Pat Moore, published a two-volume topical noun dictionary" (Golla 2007:54).

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

250

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150

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In all these communities there is perhaps a total of 250 fluent speakers and another 150 passive speakers.

Year of info

2008

Location and Context

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Canada

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Yukon, British Columbia

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Yukon, British Columbia

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

16

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62

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Numbers only for those in British Columbia.

Year of info

2014

Location and Context

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Canada: British Columbia, Yukon

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English

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

400

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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
    2012. "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."
  2. North America
    Golla, Victor. 2007. "North America." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 1-96. London & New York: Routledge.
  3. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  4. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  5. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  6. North America
    Victor Golla, Ives Goddard, Lyle Campbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2008. "North America." In Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by Chris Moseley and Ron Asher. 7-41. Routledge.
  7. 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/.
    http://www.maps.fphlcc.ca/