Gwich'in
Dinjii Zhuh K'yaa; Kutchin; Kuchin; Tukudh; Takudh; Dagoo; Loucheux
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit; Dene (Athabaskan);
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150 Alaska, 400 Canada. Population: 1,000 Alaska, 1,900 Canada
2007
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2010
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Alaska; Canada;
68.1171,-145.5173
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2010
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67.4407,-134.8272; 68.1171,-145.5173
Spoken in northeastern Alaska in the villages of Arctic Village, Venetie, Fort Yukon, Chalkyitsik, Circle, and Birch Creek, as well as in Aklavik, Inuvik, Tsiigehtchic (formerly Arctic Red River) and Fort McPherson in the Northwest Territories, and in Old Crow in the Yukon Territory.
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Spoken in northeastern Alaska in the villages of Arctic Village, Venetie, Fort Yukon, Chalkyitsik, Circle, and Birch Creek, as well as in Aklavik, Inuvik, Tsiigehtchic (formerly Arctic Red River) and Fort McPherson in the Northwest Territories, and in Old Crow in the Yukon Territory.
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500 in Canada. Population total all countries: 800.
2009
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Alaska; Northwest Territories: Aklavik, Inuvik, Tsiigehtchic, Fort McPherson; Yukon Territory, Old Crow.
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Alaska; Northwest Territories: Aklavik, Inuvik, Tsiigehtchic, Fort McPherson; Yukon Territory, Old Crow.
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Canada: 370 in Canada (2011 census). Ethnic population: 1900 (Krauss 2007). US: 300 (Golla 2007). Ethnic population: 1000 (Krauss 2007).
2016
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~3,000
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2007
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Spoken in northeastern Alaska in the villages of Arctic Village, Venetie, Fort Yukon, Chalkyitsik, Circle, and Birch Creek, as well as in Aklavik, Inuvik, Tsiigehtchic (formerly Arctic Red River) and Fort McPherson in the Northwest Territories, and in Old Crow in the Yukon Territory.
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Spoken in northeastern Alaska in the villages of Arctic Village, Venetie, Fort Yukon, Chalkyitsik, Circle, and Birch Creek, as well as in Aklavik, Inuvik, Tsiigehtchic (formerly Arctic Red River) and Fort McPherson in the Northwest Territories, and in Old Crow in the Yukon Territory.
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Gwich’in has been taught in the school at Old Crow since the early 1970s, and in 1996 Old Crow students launched a web site, “Old Crow: Land of the Vuntut Gwich’in.”
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3,000: 1,100 Alaska, 1,900 Canada
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Dialects: Western (Alaskan) and Eastern (Canadian) (called Loucheux). Gwich’in population of Alaska is about 1,100, and of that number about 300 are speakers of the language; the Canadian population is about 1,900, with perhaps as many as 500 speakers.
2008
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Spoken in northeastern Alaska in the villages of Arctic Village, Venetie, Fort Yukon, Chalkyitsik, Circle, and Birch Creek, as well as in Aklavik, Inuvik, Tsiigehtchic (formerly Arctic Red River) and Fort McPherson in the Northwest Territories, and in Old Crow in the Yukon Territory.
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2005
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Alaska; Canada
67.0,-146.0
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