Hare (Sahtu) language

E350871

The Hare (Sahtu) language is an Indigenous Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Sahtu Dene people of Canada’s Northwest Territories.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Hare (Sahtu) language canonical 1
Sahtu language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf First Nations language
Indigenous language of North America
Northern Athabaskan language
country Canada
ethnicGroup Dene peoples
surface form: Sahtu Dene
hasAlternativeName Hare Dene
North Slavey
North Slavey
surface form: North Slavey Dene

Hare (Sahtu) language
surface form: Sahtu language

Sahtúot’ı̨nę Yatı̨́
hasDialects Sahtu dialects
hasDomain Dene spirituality and worldview
traditional ecological knowledge
hasGlottocode nort2940
hasGrammaticalFeature aspect marking on verbs
prefixing verb structure
pronominal prefixes
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
verb-final tendencies
hasMorphologicalFeature polysynthetic morphology
verb-centered morphology
hasNeighboringLanguage Gwich’in language
South Slavey
surface form: South Slavey language

Dogrib language
surface form: Tłı̨chǫ (Dogrib) language
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant system
tonal contrasts
ISO639-3 scs
isPartOf Dene languages
surface form: Dene languages of the Northwest Territories
isRecognizedAs official Indigenous language of the Northwest Territories
isRecognizedBy Government of the Northwest Territories
isSubjectOf language revitalization efforts in Sahtu communities
isTaughtIn community-based language programs in Northwest Territories
isUsedAlongside English in Sahtu communities
languageFamily Athabaskan
surface form: Athabaskan languages

Na-Dene
surface form: Na-Dene languages

Northern Athabaskan languages
region Sahtu Region
spokenBy Dene peoples
surface form: Sahtu Dene people
spokenIn Canada
Northwest Territories
status endangered language
subclassOf Athabaskan
surface form: Athabaskan language

Dene language
Na-Dene language
usedFor community communication in Sahtu Region
cultural ceremonies
traditional oral storytelling
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Northern Athabaskan languages hasMember Hare (Sahtu) language
Hare (Sahtu) language hasAlternativeName Hare (Sahtu) language
this entity surface form: Sahtu language