Athabaskan language family

GPTKB entity

Statements (60)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:language_family
gptkbp:has_cognates gptkb:Tsimshian
gptkb:Haida
gptkb:Tlingit
gptkbp:has_dialects gptkb:Dene_languages
gptkbp:has_features bilingualism
cultural significance
language endangerment
vowel harmony
agglutinative morphology
language revitalization efforts
language shift
registers
syllable structure
lexical borrowing
intonation patterns
case marking
semantic roles
phonological rules
stress patterns
phonemic contrasts
dialectal variation
sociolects
word order flexibility
tone distinctions
gender distinctions
aspectual distinctions
language documentation efforts
language contact phenomena
evidentiality
reduplication
complex consonant clusters
ergative-absolutive alignment
numeral classifiers
suffixing morphology
consonant harmony
numerous noun classes
politeness distinctions
subordination strategies
incorporation
morphophonemic alternations
prefixing morphology
verb-centric structure
gptkbp:historical_impact Indigenous cultures of North America
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Athabaskan language family
gptkbp:includes gptkb:Gwichʼin
gptkb:Navajo
gptkb:Apache
gptkb:Koyukon
Tanana
gptkbp:is_divided_into gptkb:Southern_Athabaskan_languages
gptkb:Northern_Athabaskan_languages
gptkbp:is_part_of Na-Dené family
gptkbp:notable_speakers approximately 200,000
gptkbp:originated_in gptkb:Alaska
gptkbp:related_to gptkb:Na-Dené_languages
gptkbp:spoken_in gptkb:North_America
gptkbp:system Latin script
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Apache_peoples
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6