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    Eyak was a Na-Dené language, historically spoken by the Eyak people, indigenous to south-central Alaska, near the mouth of the Copper River. The name Eyak...
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    The Eyak (Eyak: ʔi·ya·ɢdəlahɢəyu·, literally "inhabitants of Eyak Village at Mile 6") are Native American Indigenous peoples historically located on the...
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    Athabaskan–Eyak–Tlingit, Tlina–Dene) is a family of Native American languages that includes at least the Athabaskan languages, Eyak, and Tlingit languages. Haida...
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  • Marie Smith Jones (category Articles containing Eyak-language text)
    surviving speaker of the Eyak language of Southcentral Alaska. She was born in Cordova, Alaska, was an honorary chief of the Eyak Nation and the last remaining...
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    Michael E. Krauss (category Linguists of Na-Dene languages)
    Native Language Center. The Alaska Native Language Archive is named after him. Krauss is known first and foremost as an Athabaskanist and Eyak language specialist...
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  • her farewell, they also bid farewell to the Eyak language as Marie was the last fluent speaker of the language." Overall, there are many different reasons...
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    Proto-Athabaskan language. This resembles both Tlingit and Eyak much more than most of the daughter languages in the Athabaskan family. Although Ethnologue still...
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    Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives (category Articles containing Eyak-language text)
    OCLC 7080610 – via ProQuest. Krauss, Michael E. (27 June 2016) [1965]. "Eyak: a preliminary report". Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 10 (2–3). Oxford...
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    reduced gradually from south to north. The shared features between the Eyak language, found around the Copper River delta, and Tongass Tlingit, near the...
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  • Voiceless velar fricative (category Articles containing Eyak-language text)
    voiceless velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It was part of the consonant inventory of Old English and can still be...
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  • Voiceless uvular plosive (category Articles containing Eyak-language text)
    uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is pronounced like a voiceless velar plosive [k], except that the...
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    languages [8,700 BCE] Na-Dené languages (Athabascan–Eyak–Tlingit) Sino-Vasconic languages [7,900 BCE] Vasconic (see below) Sino-Caucasian languages [6...
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    native speaker of the Eyak language and last full blood Eyak Cody McKenzie (born 1987), UFC fighter Miles Glacier Bridge Mount Eyak The Chugach Census Area...
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  • Tanana, Upper Tanana, Tanacross, Hän, Ahtna, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian as official state languages. However, this does not require the government...
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    Guillaume Leduey (category Linguists of Na-Dene languages)
    extinct Eyak language and active participation in the campaign to revive Eyak. Leduey is a polyglot, and he is able to speak five languages besides Eyak: French...
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    The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...
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    Northern Athabaskan is a geographic sub-grouping of the Athabaskan language family spoken by indigenous peoples in the northern part of North America,...
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  • (possibly *ŋ) that appears in idiosyncratic ways in Dene (or Athabaskan), Eyak, Tlingit, and Yeniseian nouns, postpositions, directionals, and demonstratives...
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  • Robert Austerlitz (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    Austerlitz conducted approximately one month of field work with the Eyak language, resulting in a collection of at least eight recordings and approximately...
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  • Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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  • Proto-Athabaskan–Eyak, and Proto-Na-Dene that occurs in various reflexes of the first person singular pronoun. In Athabaskan languages, it usually has...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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    (Haida + Tlingit + Eyak + Athabaskan) Nostratic–Amerind Paezan (Andaqui + Paez + Panzaleo) Paezan–Barbacoan Penutian   (many languages of California and...
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    Marie Smith Jones 1918 2008 Anchorage, Cordova last speaker of the Eyak language DeeDee Jonrowe 1953 living Anchorage, Fairbanks, Willow sled dog racer...
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  • the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and in most circumstances...
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    [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North...
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    Chugach (section Language)
    and Sugpiaq Eskimo, are pejorative. Chugach villages include Chenega Bay, Eyak, Nanwalek (English Bay), Port Graham, and Tatitlek. The Chugach people have...
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  • US including California) Na-dene languages Haida Tlingit Eyak († since 2008) Slave Chiracahua Apache Pomoan languages Eastern Pomo (fluid-S, Northern California)...
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  • Kwalhioqua–Clatskanie (Kwalhioqua–Tlatskanai) is an extinct Athabaskan language of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington state, along the lower Columbia...
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  • called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community)...
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