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    Chipewyan /ˌtʃɪpəˈwaɪən/ or Dënesųłinë́ (ethnonym: Dënesųłinë́ yatié IPA: [tènɛ̀sũ̀ɬìné jàtʰìɛ́]), often simply called Dëne, is the language spoken by...
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    The Chipewyan (/ˌtʃɪpəˈwaɪən/ CHIP-ə-WY-ən, also called Denésoliné or Dënesųłı̨né or Dënë Sųłınë́, meaning "the original/real people") are a Dene Indigenous...
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    Athabaskan languages at 4,022,000 square kilometres (1,553,000 sq mi). Chipewyan is spoken over the largest area of any North American native language, while...
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  • adulthood The Chipewyan language exhibits morphological characteristics that are far more complex than the majority of European languages. This includes...
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  • distinctions. Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages: Include the shared areal feature of retroflex consonants. Chipewyan, Cree, French, and English: Phonological...
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    Great Bear Lake (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    longitude, 156 m (512 ft) above sea level. The name originated from the Chipewyan word satudene, meaning "grizzly bear-water people". The Sahtu, a Dene...
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    Aurora (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    surround the spectacle. The European explorer Samuel Hearne travelled with Chipewyan Dene in 1771 and recorded their views on the ed-thin ('caribou'). According...
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  • It controls eight Indian reserves: Chipewyan 201 and Chipewyan 201A through Chipewyan 201G, near Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. The band is party to Treaty...
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    Fort Chipewyan /ˈtʃɪpəwaɪən, -pwaɪ-, ˈtʃɪpəwən/, commonly referred to as Fort Chip, is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada, within the Regional Municipality...
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    their ancestral cultural and land rights. The largest population of Chipewyan language (Dënesųłinë́ or Dëne) speakers live in the northern Saskatchewan village...
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    Matooskie (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    "Nancy" McKenzie (c. 1790 – 24 July 1851), was a First Nations woman of the Chipewyan (Dënesųłı̨né) nation in Canada. The daughter of Scottish-Canadian fur...
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    Fisher (animal) (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    borrowed by fur traders. Other Native American names for the fisher are Chipewyan thacho and Carrier chunihcho, both meaning "big marten", and Wabanaki...
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    American mink (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    analytical dictionary. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-2687-6. Chipewyan Dictionary. Canada: South Slave Divisional Education Council. 2012....
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    Fort Smith, Northwest Territories (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    Fort Smith (Chipewyan: Thebacha "beside the rapids") is a town in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. It is located in...
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    Striped skunk (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    Mephitis mephitis Linguistic group or area Indigenous name Abenaki segôgw Chipewyan nool'-tsee-a Plains Cree sikâk ᓯᑳᐠ Swampy, Moose, and James Bay Cree šikâkw/shikaakw...
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    Edmonton (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    Fort-des-Prairies by French-Canadians, trappers, and coureurs des bois. Indigenous languages refer to the Edmonton area by multiple names which reference the presence...
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  • Legislative assemblies of Canadian provinces and territories (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    Territoires du Nord-Ouest (French), Beba Ɂełígíth Ɂeła Déłtth’ı Kų́é (Chipewyan), ᒪᓕᒐᓕᐅᖅᑎᑦ (Inuktitut), K'áowe gogha ełek'éterewe ke łénakedé (North Slavey)...
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  • official language; in localities with Chukchi population) Chuvash: Chuvashia (state language; with Russian) Cree: Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, English...
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    Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    1017/S0025100301002110. Li, Fang-Kuei (1946). Hoijer, Harry; Osgood, Cornelius (eds.). Chipewyan. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology. Viking Fund. pp. 398–423. {{cite...
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    Same-sex marriage in Saskatchewan (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    simply referred to as the Charter (French: Charte; Cree: Nahēyihtowin; Chipewyan: Yatı Nedhé) N.W. v. Canada (Attorney General), 2004 SKQB 434, 246 DLR...
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    Churchill River (Hudson Bay) (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Native name Missinipi (Cree) des nëdhë́ (Chipewyan) Location Country Canada Provinces Saskatchewan Manitoba Physical characteristics...
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    Lac La Biche, Alberta (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    referred to the lake as Elk Lake (Plains Cree: wâwâskesiwisâkahikan, Chipewyan: tzalith tway). The earliest Europeans translated this name into English...
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  • Sayisi Dene (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    Churchill The Sayisi Dene ('People under the Sun' or 'People of the East', Chipewyan: ᓴᔨᓯ ᑌᓀ, Sayisi Dene) are Dene Suline peoples, a Dene group, living in...
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  • List of ISO 639-2 codes (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    ISO 639 is a set of international standards that lists short codes for language names. The following is a complete list of three-letter codes defined in...
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  • Voiceless dental non-sibilant affricate (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    non-sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this...
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    Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    Territoires du Nord-Ouest (French) Beba Ɂełígíth Ɂeła Déłtth’ı Kų́é (Chipewyan) ᒪᓕᒐᓕᐅᖅᑎᑦ (Inuktitut) K'áowe gogha ełek'éterewe ke łénakedé (North Slavey)...
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    group include Dane-zaa, Chipewyan, Babine-Witsuwitʼen, Carrier, and Slavey;. The Northern Athabaskan languages consist of 31 languages that can be divided...
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    is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved...
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    Fond du Lac Denesuline First Nation (category Articles containing Chipewyan-language text)
    Fond du Lac Dene Nation (Chipewyan: Gánį Kóé) is a Dene First Nation located in the boreal forest area of northern Saskatchewan, Canada. The main settlement...
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  • or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language. Official language A language designated as having a unique legal...
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