Koyukon Language (koy) - Revision history

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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Ten'a

<b>Description:</b>

Koyukon (also called Denaakk'e) is an Athabaskan language spoken along the Koyukuk and middle Yukon River in western interior Alaska. It has about 300 speakers - generally older adults bilingual in English - from an ethnic population of 2,300.
Jules Jette, a French Canadian Jesuit missionary, began recording the language and culture of the Koyukon people in 1898. Considered a fluent Koyukon speaker after spending years in the region, Jette died in 1927, leaving behind a significant quantity of notes on the Koyukon people, their culture and beliefs, and their language. Eliza Jones, an Alaskan native and member of the Koyukon tribe, came in contact with these manuscripts while studying, and later working, at the University of Alaska in the early 1970s. Working from Jette's notes, and in consultation with Koyukon tribal elders, Jones pieced together the Koyukon Athabaskan Dictionary, edited by James Kari and published by the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, in 2000.
The Koyukon Athabaskan Dictionary is unusually comprehensive in terms of documentation of an American indigenous language, in part because Jette's notes were of excellent quality and<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=5862045 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Koyukon Language Speakers</h2>
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<tr><td>Map:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_koy_map-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_koy_map-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Orthography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_koy_ortho-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_koy_ortho-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Vernacular Text:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_koy_vertext-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_koy_vertext-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/united_states United States]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/americas Americas]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>koy</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

  [[Na-Dene Group]]

    [[Nuclear Na-Dene Group]]

      [[Athapaskan-Eyak Group]]

        [[Athapaskan Group]]

          [[Ingalik-Koyukon Group]]

            [[Koyukon-Holikachuk Group]]

              <b>[[Koyukon Language]]</b>

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