Tsetsaut language

Tsetsaut
Wetaŀ
Native to	Canada
Region	Northern British Columbia
Ethnicity	Tsetsaut
Extinct	mid 20th century
Language family	Dené–Yeniseian? Na-Dené Athabaskan Northern Athabaskan Tsetsaut
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist list	txc
Glottolog	tset1236
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The Tsetsaut language is an extinct Athabascan language formerly spoken by the now-extinct Tsetsaut in the Behm and Portland Canal area of Southeast Alaska and northwestern British Columbia. Virtually everything known of the language comes from the limited material recorded by Franz Boas in 1894 from two Tsetsaut slaves of the Nisga'a, which is enough to establish that Tsetsaut formed its own branch of Athabaskan. It is not known precisely when the language became extinct. One speaker was still alive in 1927. The Nisga'a name for the Tsetsaut people is "Jits'aawit"

The Tsetsaut referred to themselves as the Wetaŀ. The English name Tsetsaut is an anglicization of [tsʼətsʼaut], "those of the interior", used by the Gitxsan and Nisga'a to refer to the Athabaskan-speaking people to the north and east of them, including not only the Tsetsaut but some Tahltan and Sekani.

The examples by Merritt Ruhlen:

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