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    languages, Eyak, and Tlingit languages. Haida was formerly included, but is now considered doubtful. By far the most widely spoken Na-Dene language today...
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  • Dené–Yeniseian is a proposed language family consisting of the Yeniseian languages of central Siberia and the Na-Dené languages of northwestern North...
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    Sino-Tibetan languages, Yeniseian languages, Burushaski and North Caucasian languages in Asia; Na-Dené languages in North America; and the Vasconic languages from...
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    also known as Dene) is a large family of Indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three areal language groups: Northern...
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    region of central Siberia. As part of the proposed Dené–Yeniseian language family, the Yeniseian languages have been argued to be part of "the first demonstration...
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    most languages of Eurasia, as well as the Afroasiatic languages of North Africa and the Horn of Africa, and the Eskimo–Aleut and the Na-Dene languages of...
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    Northern Athabaskan languages. Dene is the common Athabaskan word for "people". The term "Dene" has two uses: Most commonly, "Dene" is used narrowly to...
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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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    ⟨tthʼ⟩, ⟨th⟩, and ⟨dh⟩ corresponds to s-like sibilants in other Na-Dené languages. Dënesųłinë́ has vowels of 6 differing qualities. Most vowels can...
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    Na-Dene language family. Extensive effort is being put into revitalization programs in Southeast Alaska to revive and preserve the Tlingit language and...
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  • largely extinct Yeniseian family, has been linked to the Na-Dené languages of North America. Dené–Yeniseian has been called "the first demonstration of a...
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  • to the Na-Dene languages family and it is closely related to Jicarilla language, which is also part of the Eastern Southern Athabaskan languages. In 1981...
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    NaDené languages and Sino-Tibetan languages, known as Sino–Dené had also been proposed by Edward Sapir. Around 1920 Sapir became convinced that Na-Dené...
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    controversy, with some linguists placing it in the Na-Dené language family and others arguing that it is a language isolate. Haida itself is split between Northern...
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    Ket people (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
    no longer nomadic. The Ket language has been linked to the Na-Dené languages of North America in the Dené–Yeniseian language family. This link has led...
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    Turkic languages). They are, however, firmly entrenched in the non-Uralo-Siberian languages of northernmost Eurasia, including Yeniseian, Nivkh, Na-Dene, Haida...
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  • Far East, and the Inuit languages of Alaska, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Greenland. The Na-Dené languages, of which the most numerous...
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  • Edward Vajda (category Linguists of Na-Dene languages)
    proposed Dené–Yeniseian language family, seeking to establish that the Ket language of Siberia has a common linguistic ancestor with the Na-Dené languages of...
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  • mid-19th century. Hän is in the Northern Athabaskan subgrouping of the Na-Dené language family. It is most closely related to Gwich'in and Upper Tanana. The...
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  • (/ˈsleɪvi/; also Slave, Slavé) is a group of Athabaskan languages and a dialect continuum spoken amongst the Dene peoples of Canada in the Northwest Territories...
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    dialects Na-Dene languages: Lipan, Mezcalero, Chiricahua, Western Apache Language families with all known members in Mexico Totonacan languages: Totonac...
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    In addition, due to ancient migrations of related peoples, other Na-Dené languages, such as Navajo and Apachean varieties, are spoken in the American...
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    Sergei Starostin (category Linguists of Na-Dene languages)
    reconstructions of hypothetical proto-languages, including his work on the controversial Altaic theory, the formulation of the Dené–Caucasian hypothesis, and the...
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    the Na-Dené languages of North America, as part of a newly named Dené–Yeniseian family, the relevant morphological correspondences between Na-Dene and...
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    Edward Sapir (category Linguists of Na-Dene languages)
    for the classification of the Algic, Uto-Aztecan, and Na-Dene languages. He proposed some language families that are not considered to have been adequately...
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  • many other languages within the large language family of Na-Dene languages, which includes another group of indigenous North American languages called the...
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    A relationship between the Na-Dené languages of North America (such as Navajo and Apache), and the Yeniseian languages of Siberia was first proposed...
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    explanation for language isolates is that they developed in isolation from other languages. This explanation mostly applies to sign languages that have arisen...
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    Michael E. Krauss (category Linguists of Na-Dene languages)
    a language that became extinct in January 2008. However, he worked on all of the 20 Native languages of Alaska, 18 of which belong to the Na-Dené and...
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    Iroquoian languages) Plains cultural area (Algonquian, Plains Sign, and Siouan languages) Northwest Plateau cultural area (Ktunaxa, Na-Dene, and Salishan...
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