Upper Kuskokwim Athabascan

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Upper Kuskokwim Athabascan is an endangered Northern Athabaskan language traditionally spoken by the Upper Kuskokwim people of interior Alaska.

All labels observed (3)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northern Athabaskan language ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ
language ⓘ
alternativeName Kolchan ⓘ
Upper Kuskokwim ⓘ
Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan ⓘ
Upper Kuskokwim Dena’ina ⓘ
associatedWith Upper Kuskokwim traditional culture ⓘ
continent North America ⓘ
country United States ⓘ
countrySubdivision U.S. state of Alaska ⓘ
linked to: Alaska
culturalRegion Subarctic ⓘ
endangermentStatus endangered ⓘ
ethnicGroup Upper Kuskokwim people ⓘ
geographicDistribution central Alaska interior ⓘ
glottocode uppe1437 ⓘ
hasAncestor Proto-Athabaskan ⓘ
Proto-Na-Dene ⓘ
linked to: Na-Dene
hasConsonantInventory large consonant inventory ⓘ
hasDomain indigenous languages of North America ⓘ
hasGrammarDescription documented by field linguists ⓘ
hasLexicon documented wordlists and dictionaries ⓘ
hasRevitalizationEffort community-based language programs ⓘ
documentation projects ⓘ
hasSpeakerCommunity Upper Kuskokwim villages ⓘ
hasVowelInventory relatively small vowel inventory ⓘ
ISO639-3Code kuu ⓘ
languageBranch Northern Athabaskan ⓘ
languageFamily Athabaskan languages ⓘ
Na-Dene language family ⓘ
linked to: Na-Dene
languageStatus severely endangered ⓘ
linguisticTypology head-marking language ⓘ
polysynthetic language ⓘ
morphologyType prefixing ⓘ
phonologicalFeature tone-less Athabaskan language ⓘ
region Upper Kuskokwim River region ⓘ
relatedTo Ahtna language ⓘ
Dena’ina language ⓘ
Koyukon language ⓘ
spokenBy Upper Kuskokwim people ⓘ
spokenIn Alaska ⓘ
interior Alaska ⓘ
villages along the upper Kuskokwim River ⓘ
subjectTo languageShift to English ⓘ
usedFor ceremonial contexts ⓘ
subsistence-related knowledge ⓘ
traditional oral narratives ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Nikolai, Alaska → hasIndigenousLanguage → Upper Kuskokwim Athabascan ⓘ
Upper Kuskokwim Athabascan → alternativeName → Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan ⓘ
linked to: Upper Kuskokwim Athabascan
Upper Kuskokwim Athabascan → alternativeName → Upper Kuskokwim Dena’ina ⓘ
linked to: Upper Kuskokwim Athabascan