Upper Kuskokwim
Upper Kuskokwim is an Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit language spoken in United States, by about 35 people. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.
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The Upper Kuskokwim language (also called Kolchan or Goltsan or Dinak'i) is an Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené language family. It is spoken by the Upper Kuskokwim people in the Upper Kuskokwim River villages of Nikolai, Telida, and McGrath, Alaska. About 40 of a total of 160 Upper Kuskokwim people (Dichinanek’ Hwt’ana) still speak the language.
A practical orthography of the language was established by Raymond Collins, who in 1964 began linguistic work at Nikolai.
Since 1990s, the language has also been documented by a Russian linguist Andrej Kibrik.
From Wikipedia · Upper Kuskokwim language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Upper Kuskokwim
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | dina* | |
| eye | nagha7* | |
| ear | dzigha7* | |
| nose | nceS* | |
| tooth | ghu7* | |
| tongue | cula* | |
| hand | lo7* | |
| blood | di* | |
| bone | c7in* | |
| skin | zis* | |
| knee | gwt* | |
| liver | C7izit* | |
| water | tu | |
| fire | kwn7* | |
| sun | sro* | |
| star | srwn7* | |
| mountain | digheloye* | |
| leaf | t7on7* | |
| night | ticyu* | |
| dog | leC7a* | |
| fish | Luk7a* | |
| one | c7eLk7e* | |
| two | notek7a* | |
| I | se* | |
| you | nin* | |
| we | hwnde* | |
| hear | hodoy7* | |
| die | ce* | |
| come | ne* | |
| new | k7odede* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- Lower TananaAthabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit40% alike
- KoyukonAthabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit32% alike
- SarsiAthabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit32% alike
- Southern CarrierAthabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit31% alike
- Degexit'anAthabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit30% alike
- KaskaAthabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit30% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · uppe1438 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · kuu