The Tlingit language (English: /ˈklɪŋkɪt/ KLING-kit; Lingít Athapascan pronunciation: [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]) is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska...
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small minority, 2,110, who are Canadian First Nations. Their language is the Tlingit language (natively Lingít, pronounced [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]), in which the name...
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Athabaskan–Eyak–Tlingit, Tlina–Dene) is a family of Native American languages that includes at least the Athabaskan languages, Eyak, and Tlingit languages. Haida...
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The Tlingit language has been recorded in a number of orthographies over the two hundred years since European contact. The first transcriptions of Tlingit...
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Athabaskan languages. The Eyak–Athabaskan group forms a basic division of the Na-Dené language family, the other being Tlingit. Numerous Tlingit place names...
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Tlingit are an indigenous people of Alaska. Tlingit may also refer to: Tlingit language Tlingit alphabet Tlingit clans Tlingit cuisine Mount Tlingit,...
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Proto-Athabaskan language. This resembles both Tlingit and Eyak much more than most of the daughter languages in the Athabaskan family. Although Ethnologue...
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Ketchikan, Alaska (category Articles containing Tlingit-language text)
Ketchikan (/ˈkɛtʃɪkæn/ KETCH-ih-kan; Tlingit: Kichx̱áan) is a city in and the borough seat of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough on Revillagigedo Island of...
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other indigenous languages, Tlingit is critically endangered. Less than 100 fluent Elders existed as of 2017. From 2013 to 2014, the language activist, author...
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Shamanism among Alaska Natives (redirect from Tlingit Shaman)
Aurel (1956). The Tlingit Indians. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 194–204. Kan, Sergei (1999). Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian...
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Uvular consonant (category Articles containing Tlingit-language text)
The Tlingit language of the Alaska Panhandle has ten uvular consonants, all of which are voiceless obstruents: And the extinct Ubykh language of Turkey...
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Alaska (category Articles containing Tlingit-language text)
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...
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Hoonah, Alaska (category Articles containing Tlingit-language text)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Mount Edgecumbe (Alaska) (category Articles containing Tlingit-language text)
volcano was erupting. The indigenous Tlingit people consider the mountain to be sacred. In the Tlingit language, the mountain is called Lʼúx, which means...
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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...
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their liturgy into the Tlingit language. After Christianization, the Tlingit belief system began to erode. Today, some young Tlingits look back towards what...
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Juneau, Alaska (category Articles containing Tlingit-language text)
Juneau (/ˈdʒuːnoʊ/ JOO-noh; Tlingit: Dzánti K'ihéeni [ˈtsʌ́ntʰɪ̀ kʼɪ̀ˈhíːnɪ̀]), officially the City and Borough of Juneau, is the capital city of the...
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Like nouns in many Native American languages, the Tlingit noun is easily conceptualized but difficult to formally define. It can be simple or compound...
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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...
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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...
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Haida people (category Articles containing Tlingit-language text)
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...
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Wrangell, Alaska (category Articles containing Tlingit-language text)
Wrangell (Tlingit: Ḵaachx̱ana.áakʼw, Russian: Врангель, romanized: Vrangel') is a borough in Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census the population...
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The culture of the Tlingit, an Indigenous people from Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon, is multifaceted, a characteristic of Northwest Coast peoples...
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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...
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Sitka, Alaska (category Articles containing Tlingit-language text)
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...
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Tagish (category Articles containing Tlingit-language text)
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...
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Voiceless alveolar lateral affricate (category Articles containing Tlingit-language text)
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]"...
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