Dogrib language
| Dogrib | |
|---|---|
| Tlinchon | |
| Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì | |
| Native to | Canada |
| Region | Northwest Territories |
| Ethnicity | Dogrib people |
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Native speakers
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2,100 (2011 census) |
| Latin | |
| Official status | |
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Official language in
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Northwest Territories (Canada) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | dogr1252 |
The Dogrib language, or Tlinchon (/ˈtlɪntʃɒn/; Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì [tɬí̃tʃʰṍ játʰîː]), is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Tłı̨chǫ (Digrib people) of the Canadian Northwest Territories. According to Statistics Canada in 2006, there were 2,640 people who spoke Tlinchon.
The Tlinchon region covers the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, reaching almost up to Great Bear Lake. Rae-Edzo, now known by its Tlinchon name, Behchokǫ̀, is the largest community in the Tlinchon region.
The consonants of Tlinchon in the standard orthography are listed below (with IPA notation in brackets):
Tenuis stops may be lightly voiced. Aspirated stops may be fricated [Cˣʰ] before back vowels.
The language uses long, short and nasal vowels, and distinguishes them in writing, along with low tone:
Typologically, Tlinchon is an agglutinating, polysynthetic head-marking language, but many of its affixes combine into contractions more like fusional languages. The canonical word order of Tlinchon is SOV. Tlinchon words are modified primarily by prefixes, which is unusual for an SOV language (suffixes are expected).
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