Ahtena
Atnakenaege’
Ahtena is an Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit language spoken in United States, by about 80 people. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.
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Ahtna or Ahtena (, from At Na 'Copper River') is the Na-Dené language of the Ahtna ethnic group of the Copper River area of Alaska. The language is also known as Copper River or Mednovskiy.
The Ahtna language consists of four different dialects: Upper, Central, Lower, and Western. Three of the four are still spoken today. Ahtna is closely related to Dena'ina.
The similar name Atnah occurs in the journals of Simon Fraser and other early European diarists in what is now British Columbia as a reference to the Tsilhqot'in people, another Northern Athapaskan group.
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Words in Ahtena
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | tsʼakae | |
| blood | del | |
| water | tuu | |
| river | -naʼ | |
| night | tets | |
| dog | łicʼae | |
| horse | xoos | |
| coffee | guuxi |
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- Southern CarrierAthabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit40% alike
- KaskaAthabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit37% alike
- ChipewyanAthabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit34% alike
- SarsiAthabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit32% alike
- SlaveAthabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit29% alike
- Upper KuskokwimAthabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit29% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · ahte1237 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · aht