Tcb

Description: Tanacross (also Transitional Tanana) is an endangered Athabaskan language spoken by fewer than 60 persons in eastern Interior Alaska. The word Tanacross has been used to refer both to a village in eastern Alaska and to an ethnolinguistic group. The modern village of Tanacross is accessible by a short access road from the Alaska Highway, and some speakers now reside in the regional center of Tok, located approximately ten miles east of the village on the highway. In addition several speakers now reside in the nearest commercial center of Fairbanks, located two hundred miles downstream from Tanacross village and accessible by all-weather highway. Tanacross is the ancestral language of the Mansfield-Kechumstuk and Healy Lake-Joseph Village bands of Athabaskan people, whose ancestral territory encompassed an area bounded by the Goodpaster River to the west, the Alaska Range to the south, the Fortymile and Tok rivers to the east, and the Yukon Uplands to the north. In the late nineteenth century trading posts were established at Tanana Crossing, a ford along the Eagle Trail, directly across the Tanana River from the present-day village of Tanacross. A telegraph station followed in 1902,..... full article at Wikipedia Location of Tanacross Language Speakers http://llmap.org/languages/tcb/static_map.png?width=400&height=300&kilroywashere=.png

Overview Main Country: United States Spoken In: Regions: Americas ISO 639-3 Code: tcb Classification Taxonomy All Languages   Na-Dene Group     Nuclear Na-Dene Group       Athapaskan-Eyak Group         Athapaskan Group           Tanana-Upper Kuskokwim Group             Tanana Group               Tanacross Language