The Sekani language or Tse’khene is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Sekani people of north-central British Columbia, Canada. Sekani has 33...
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Sekani or Tse’khene are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group in the Northern Interior of British Columbia. Their territory...
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American mink (category Articles containing Sekani-language text)
weasels and other indigenous animals as heroes.[citation needed] Abenaki language Western Abnaki: mosbas Penobscot: mósəpehso Alabama: sakihpa Aleut: ilgitux̂...
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Beaver, Chilcotin, Dakelh/Carrier, Hare, Kaska, Mountain, Nicola Athapaskan, Sekani/Tsek'ene, Slavey, Tagish, Tahltan, Tsetsaut Alberta: Beaver, Dëne Sųłiné...
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An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
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member nations of the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council, plus some other nations that speak the Carrier or Sekani languages, mostly in north central British...
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(also known as Nahanni, Nahane, Nahani, Cassiar) Southeastern Cordillera Sekani Danezaa (also known as Beaver, Tsattine, Dunne-za, Deneza, Gens de Castor)...
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is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved...
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people speak the language. Beaver is closely related to the languages spoken by neighboring Athabaskan groups, such as Slavey, Sekani, Tsuu T’ina, Chipewyan...
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the Stikine Plateau). The name is an adaptation of a phrase in the Sekani language meaning "red goat", a reference to the habit of mountain goats in the...
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Tsay Keh Dene (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
the Sekani language, may mean: Sekani people of northern British Columbia, Canada Tsay Keh Dene First Nation, the band government of the Sekani people...
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people in northern British Columbia. It was founded in 1988 by the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council, the College of New Caledonia, School District 55 Burns Lake...
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An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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services are provided by Carrier Sekani Family Services, a now separate organization spun off by CSTC. The Yinka Dene Language Institute, charged with linguistic...
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Dakelh (category Pages with Athapascan languages IPA)
unlike the Sekani, participated in trade with the coast, which required packing loads of goods over the Grease Trails. Dakelh language Edward John Mary...
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known as Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 86,475 indigenous people across Canada in 2021...
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Mohawk (/ˈmoʊhɔːk/; Kanienʼkéha, "[language] of the Flint Place") is an Iroquoian language currently spoken by around 3,500 people of the Mohawk nation...
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passed through the territory of the Carriers' Sekani neighbours. The received view of the origin of the Sekani name is that it refers to the distinctive Carrier...
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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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languages have always been spoken in Canada. Prior to Confederation, the territories that would become Canada were home to over 70 distinct languages...
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or Anishinàbemiwin) is either a distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect. It is spoken...
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Duncan (Amazay) Lake (category Articles containing Sekani-language text)
Duncan Lake – known as Amazay in Sekani– is a natural 6 km (3.7 mi)-long wilderness fish-bearing lake with rainbow trout and whitefish populations, located...
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or Anishinaabemowin, is an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian language family. The language is characterized by a series of dialects...
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Bella Coola /ˈbɛlə.ˈkuːlə/, is a Salishan language spoken by the Nuxalk people. Today, it is an endangered language in the vicinity of the Canadian town of...
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Spatsizi Plateau, British Columbia. "Spatsizi" is a phrase from the Sekani language meaning "red goat", a reference to the habit of mountain goats in the...
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(/ˈskwɔːmɪʃ/ SKWAW-mish; Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim, sníchim meaning "language") is a Coast Salish language spoken by the Squamish people of the Pacific Northwest....
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Wakashan (Nootkan) language spoken on the southern part of Vancouver Island. Nitinaht is related to the other South Wakashan languages, Makah and the neighboring...
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The Mi'kmaq language (/ˈmɪɡmɑː/ MIG-mah), or Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk, is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Mi'kmaq in Canada and the United...
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Kechika River (category Articles containing Sekani-language text)
river is Tadahzeh', "long inclining river", in the Kaska language. In the 19th century, the Sekani people were displaced west into the Rocky Mountain Trench...
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Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...
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