Sekani | |
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Tse'khene | |
Native to | Canada |
Region | British Columbia |
Ethnicity | 1,410 Sekani people (2014, FPCC) |
Native speakers
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30 (2014, FPCC) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | seka1250 |
The Sekani language is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Sekani people of north-central British Columbia, Canada.
Sekani has 33 consonants:
Sekani has two tones, low and high. High is the default. That is, syllables normally have high tone. Syllables phonologically marked for tone are low.
Nasalization of vowels is contrastive.
SEK
In the practical writing system used here, the letter "u" represents the mid-central vowel and "oo" represents the high back rounded vowel. Glottal stop is represented an apostrophe.
Kwadacha Tsek'ene dialect