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.

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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

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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