The Tlingit language (English: /ˈklɪŋkɪt/ KLING-kit; Lingít Athapascan pronunciation: [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]) is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska...

small minority, 2,110, who are Canadian First Nations. Their language is the Tlingit language (natively Lingít, pronounced [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]), in which the name...

Athabaskan–Eyak–Tlingit, Tlina–Dene) is a family of Native American languages that includes at least the Athabaskan languages, Eyak, and Tlingit languages. Haida...

The Tlingit language has been recorded in a number of orthographies over the two hundred years since European contact. The first transcriptions of Tlingit...

Athabaskan languages. The Eyak–Athabaskan group forms a basic division of the Na-Dené language family, the other being Tlingit. Numerous Tlingit place names...

Tlingit are an indigenous people of Alaska. Tlingit may also refer to: Tlingit language Tlingit alphabet Tlingit clans Tlingit cuisine Mount Tlingit,...

Proto-Athabaskan language. This resembles both Tlingit and Eyak much more than most of the daughter languages in the Athabaskan family. Although Ethnologue...

Ketchikan (/ˈkɛtʃɪkæn/ KETCH-ih-kan; Tlingit: Kichx̱áan) is a city in and the borough seat of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough on Revillagigedo Island of...

other indigenous languages, Tlingit is critically endangered. Less than 100 fluent Elders existed as of 2017. From 2013 to 2014, the language activist, author...

Aurel (1956). The Tlingit Indians. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 194–204. Kan, Sergei (1999). Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian...

The Tlingit language of the Alaska Panhandle has ten uvular consonants, all of which are voiceless obstruents: And the extinct Ubykh language of Turkey...

Upward Sun River site in 2013, named this new group Ancient Beringian. The Tlingit people developed a society with a matrilineal kinship system of property...

Hoonah (Tlingit: Xunaa or Gaaw Yat’aḵ Aan) is a largely Tlingit community on Chichagof Island, located in Alaska's panhandle in the southeast region of...

Mendenhall Glacier (in Tlingit language “Sít”) is a glacier about 13.6 miles (21.9 km) long located in Mendenhall Valley, about 12 miles (19 km) from downtown...

is named for its projected thumb-like appearance. Its name in the Tlingit language means "the mountain that never flooded" and is said to have been a...

volcano was erupting. The indigenous Tlingit people consider the mountain to be sacred. In the Tlingit language, the mountain is called Lʼúx, which means...

name to honor the original Tlingit heritage of Juneau. The phrase means "beautifully adorned face" in the Tlingit language, and refers to the name of...

their liturgy into the Tlingit language. After Christianization, the Tlingit belief system began to erode. Today, some young Tlingits look back towards what...

Juneau (/ˈdʒuːnoʊ/ JOO-noh; Tlingit: Dzánti K'ihéeni [ˈtsʌ́ntʰɪ̀ kʼɪ̀ˈhíːnɪ̀]), officially the City and Borough of Juneau, is the capital city of the...

Like nouns in many Native American languages, the Tlingit noun is easily conceptualized but difficult to formally define. It can be simple or compound...

Mount Fairweather (or Tsalxaan in the Tlingit language) is 20 km (12 mi) east of the Pacific Ocean on the Canada–United States border between Alaska and...

comes from Áa Tlein, the Tlingit language word for "big body of water". The surrounding area has been used by Inland Tlingit people for many years and...

which cuts through the Dixon Entrance south of Prince of Wales Island (Tlingit: Taan) in Southeast Alaska, United States; Haida from K'iis Gwaii in the...

Wrangell (Tlingit: Ḵaachx̱ana.áakʼw, Russian: Врангель, romanized: Vrangel') is a borough in Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census the population...

the Kurdish and the Tlingit language to represent /xʷ/; see List of Latin-script digraphs ⟨x̱w⟩, a digraph used in Alaskan Tlingit to represent /χʷ/; see...

The culture of the Tlingit, an Indigenous people from Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon, is multifaceted, a characteristic of Northwest Coast peoples...

day on the bay was dubbed "The Bay of Death" (or "Geey Nana" in the Tlingit language.). In 1900, the first documented account of the legendary devil creatures...

Sitka (Tlingit: Sheetʼká; Russian: Ситка) is a unified city-borough in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Alaska. It was under Russian rule from...

Yukon of Canada. The Tagish intermarried heavily with Tlingit from the coast and the Tagish language became extinct in 2008. Today Tagish people live mainly...

phonetics of Tlingit", Anthropological Linguistics, 43 (2): 135–176, JSTOR 30028779 Chen, Qiguang [陈其光]. 2001. "A Brief Introduction of Bana Language [巴那语概况]"...