Tlingit
Łingít; Tlinkit; Thlinget; Inland Tlingit; Lingit; Kolosch; Kolosh
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit; Tlingit
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Ethnic population is about 25,000 between the US and Canada. Speaker population is, according to a recent community survey, around 200.
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The largest population of Tlingit speakers is in Juneau, Alaska, so the map should be centered on that city. Tlingit area includes Southeast Alaska (Yakutat, Hoonah, Sitka, Klukwan, Haines, Skagway, Angoon, Juneau, Douglas, Kake, Wrangell, Klawock, Craig, Ketchikan, Saxman), Yukon Territory (Whitehorse, Carcross, Tagish, Teslin), British Columbia (Atlin).
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The largest population of Tlingit speakers is in Juneau, Alaska, so the map should be centered on that city. Tlingit area includes Southeast Alaska (Yakutat, Hoonah, Sitka, Klukwan, Haines, Skagway, Angoon, Juneau, Douglas, Kake, Wrangell, Klawock, Craig, Ketchikan, Saxman), Yukon Territory (Whitehorse, Carcross, Tagish, Teslin), British Columbia (Atlin).
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300 in the U.S. in 2000; about 55 in Canada in 2001.
2010
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2010
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60.171,-132.7395; 58.334,-133.7475
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1,200 in United States (2000 census), decreasing. Ethnic population: 10,000 in the USA (M. Krauss 1995). 230 in Canada (2001 census). Ethnic population: 1,000 in Canada (Krauss 1995).
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USA: Southeast Alaska, Yakutat south to the Canadian border at Portland Canal. Canada: Northwest British Columbia, Atlin; southern Yukon, Carcross, Teslin
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USA: Southeast Alaska, Yakutat south to the Canadian border at Portland Canal. Canada: Northwest British Columbia, Atlin; southern Yukon, Carcross, Teslin
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US: 500 (Golla 2007). Ethnic population: 10,000 (1995 M. Krauss). Canada: 2 in Canada (FPCC 2014). 7 semi-speakers (FPCC 2014). Ethnic population: 400 (FPCC 2014).
2016
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For Tlingit in British Columbia only; does not include those in Alaska or the Yukon.
2012
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Tlingit is the traditional language of the Tlingit people on the southeastern coast of Alaska from Yakutat to Ketchikan, and constitutes a separate branch of the Na-Dene family alongside Eyak and the Athabaskan languages. The total Tlingit population in Alaska (organized as the Sealaska Regional Corporation, divided into 16 village communities) is about 10,000, of whom perhaps as many as 500, none of them children, are fluent speakers of the language. An additional 185 Inland Tlingit speakers live in Canada in several communities in the southern Yukon and northern British Columbia. The only other well-marked local variety is the phonologically archaic Tongass dialect, formerly spoken in the Ketchikan area but now nearly extinct.
2008
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- Grammar and Vocabulary of the Hlingit, Language of Southeastern Alaska. Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1903-1904Kelly, William A. and Frances. H. Willard. 1904. "Grammar and Vocabulary of the Hlingit, Language of Southeastern Alaska. Report of the Commissioner of Education For 1903-1904." Bureau of Education.
- 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
- First Peoples' Language Map of British Columbia2012. "First Peoples' Language Map of British Columbia." edited by First Peoples' Cultural Council. Online: http://www.maps.fphlcc.ca/.http://www.maps.fphlcc.ca/
- "Documenting Tlingit Raven Stories [ISO 639 tli]" NSF DEL AbstractDauenhauer, Richard 2008. "Documenting Tlingit Raven Stories [ISO 639 tli]" NSF DEL Abstract.http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0756468&WT.z_pims_id=12816
- 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
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