Ahtna
Ahtena; Nabesna; Tanana; Ah-tena; Atna; Copper River; Mednovskiy;
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit; Athabaskan;
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Among the Ahtna population, there are approximately 30 first-language speakers of the language alive today, all of whom are at least 60 years of age. Although most children know some phrases and vocabulary items in the language, English is the language taught in homes today (p. 3).
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The Ahtna community today consists of eight modern villages (Mentasta, Chistochina, Gakona, Gulkana, Tazlina, Copper Center, Chitina, and Cantwell) in the Copper River and Upper Susitna drainages of south central Alaska. More than 1600 Ahtna residents of the area are shareholders in Ahtna, Incorporated, one of the thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations established by Congress under the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. (p. 3)
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The Ahtna community today consists of eight modern villages (Mentasta, Chistochina, Gakona, Gulkana, Tazlina, Copper Center, Chitina, and Cantwell) in the Copper River and Upper Susitna drainages of south central Alaska. More than 1600 Ahtna residents of the area are shareholders in Ahtna, Incorporated, one of the thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations established by Congress under the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. (p. 3)
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Among the Ahtna population, there are approximately thirty first-language speakers of the language alive today, all of whom are at least sixty years of age. Although most children know some phrases and vocabulary items in the language, English is the language taught in homes today. There is, however, a growing passion for Ahtna language revitalization in the community, and several recent projects have undertaken to increase knowledge of the heritage language among Ahtna people and non-Ahtna residents of the Copper Valley. (pp. 3-4.)
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2010
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Along the Copper River and in the upper Susitna and Nenana drainages in south-central Alaska
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The data for the number of native speakers was gathered from the 2000 census. The ethnic population information is from Krauss (1995). 80 (Golla 2007). Ethnic population: 500 (1995 M. Krauss) (2013).
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80 (Golla 2007). Ethnic population: 500 (1995 M. Krauss).
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The total Ahtna population is about 500 with perhaps 80 speakers.
2008
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Alaska, Canada
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- 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 University2012. "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."
- 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/
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, 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
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