Eel River Athabaskan

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Eel River Athabaskan is a group of closely related, now mostly extinct Athabaskan languages traditionally spoken by Indigenous peoples along California’s Eel River.

All labels observed (5)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language group
Na-Dene language
closelyRelatedTo Hupa
Mattole-Bear River Athabaskan
continent North America
country United States
documentedBy linguistic fieldwork in the 19th century
linguistic fieldwork in the 20th century
geographicFeatureAssociated Eel River
hasAlternativeName Eel River Athabascan
Eel River Athapaskan
hasBranch Northern Eel River Athabaskan
Southern Eel River Athabaskan
hasEthnicGroup Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria
Lassik people
Nongatl people NERFINISHED
Sinkyone people
Wailaki people
hasGrammaticalFeature prefixing verb morphology
pronominal prefixes on verbs
hasMemberLanguage Bear River language
Lassik
Nongatl
Sinkyone
Wailaki
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant clusters
tone absent
isPartOf California indigenous languages area
North American indigenous languages
languageFamily Athabaskan
Na-Dene
region California
spokenIn Eel River region
linked to: Eel River Basin

United States
northwestern California
status mostly extinct
severely endangered
subclassOf Athabaskan languages
Pacific Coast Athabaskan
indigenous languages of California
traditionalSpeakers Athabaskan peoples of California
Indigenous peoples of the Eel River
typology polysynthetic language
verb-centered morphology
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (5)

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

Pacific Coast Athabaskan hasMemberLanguage Eel River Athabaskan
Eel River Athabaskan hasAlternativeName Eel River Athabascan
linked to: Eel River Athabaskan
Eel River Athabaskan hasAlternativeName Eel River Athapaskan
linked to: Eel River Athabaskan
Eel River Athabaskan hasBranch Northern Eel River Athabaskan
linked to: Eel River Athabaskan
Eel River Athabaskan hasBranch Southern Eel River Athabaskan
linked to: Eel River Athabaskan