Dena'ina (langue) — Wikipédia
Le dena’ina, ou tanaina, est une langue autochtone parlée dans la région du Golfe de Cook, en Alaska. Elle fait partie de la famille des langues athapascanes septentrionales.
Locuteurs
[modifier | modifier le code]En 2007, sur une population de 900 Dena'ina, entre 75 et 95 parlent cette langue[1].
Dialectes
[modifier | modifier le code]Elle se divise en quatre dialectes parlés dans différentes localités :
- Eklutna, Knik-Fairview, Susitna, Tyonek
- Kenai, Kustatan, Seldovia
- Pedro Bay, Old Iliamna, autour du Lac Iliamna
- Nondalton, Lime Village
Recherche
[modifier | modifier le code]Elle est étudiée par les linguistes James Kari et Joan M. Tenenbaum depuis les années 1970.
Notes et références
[modifier | modifier le code]- « Redirected », sur Ethnologue, (consulté le ).
Voir aussi
[modifier | modifier le code]Bibliographie
[modifier | modifier le code]- Balluta, Alex & Gladys Evanoff. 2004. Dena'ina Qenaga Du'idnaghelnik (Dena'ina Words Sound Pretty). Dena'ina Phrases 1: Nondalton Dialect, ed. by Olga Müller. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center; Anchorage: Alaska Native Heritage Center. [1]
- Boraas, Alan. 2009. An Introduction to Dena'ina Grammar: The Kenai (Outer Inlet) Dialect. Kenai Peninsula College. [2]
- Chickalusion, Maxim, et al. 1980. Q'udi Heyi Niłch'diluyi Sukdu'a: "This Years Collected Stories.(Dena'ina Stories from Tyonek and Illiamna Lake). Anchorage: National Bilingual Materials Development Center.
- Ellanna, Linda & Andrew Balluta. 1992. Nuvendaltin Quht'ana: The People of Nondalton. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
- Johnson, Walter. 2004. Sukdu Neł Nuhtghelnek: I'll Tell You A Story: Stories I Recall From Growing Up On Iliamna Lake. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
- Kalifornsky, Peter. 1991 "K'tl'egh'i Sukdu, A Dena'ina Legacy: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky" edited by James Kari and Alan Boraas. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
- Kari, James. 1975. A classification of the Tanaina dialects. Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 17:49-55.
- Kari, James. 2007. Dena'ina Topical Dictionary. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center. (ISBN 978-1-55500-091-2).
- Kari, James, Priscilla Russell Kari and Jane McGary. 1983. Dena’ina Ełnena: Tanaina Country. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center. Includes good bibliography and many photographs
- Kari, Priscilla Russell. 1987. Tanaina Plantlore: Dena’ina K’et’una. 2nd ed. Anchorage: Alaska Park Service. Ethnobotany and much other cultural information.
- Mithun, Marianne. 1999. The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (ISBN 0-521-23228-7) (hbk); (ISBN 0-521-29875-X).
- Osgood, Cornelius. 1937. Contributions to the Ethnography of the Tanaina. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 16.
- Stephan, Sava. 2005. Upper Inlet Dena’ina Language Lessons, ed. by James Kari. Anchorage: Alaska Native Heritage Center. [3]
- Tenenbaum, Joan. 1978. Morphology and semantics of the Tanaina verb. (Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University).
- Tenenbaum, Joan. 2006. Dena'ina Sukdu'a 3rd ed. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center. (ISBN 1-55500-090-8).
- Townsend, Joan B. 1981. “Tanaina.” In June Helm, ed., Subarctic: Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 6. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.
- Wassillie, Albert. 1980. Nuvendaltun Ht’ana Sukdu’a: Nondalton People’s Stories. Anchorage: National Bilingual Materials Development Center.