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Two Tlingit speakers, recorded in the United States.. The Tlingit language (English: / ˈ k l ɪ ŋ k ɪ t / ⓘ KLING-kit; [5] Lingít Tlingit pronunciation: [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]) [6] is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada and is a branch of the Na-Dene language family.
The Tlingit or Lingít (English: / ˈ t l ɪ ŋ k ɪ t, ˈ k l ɪ ŋ k ɪ t / ⓘ TLING-kit, KLING-kit) are Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America and constitute two of the 231 (As of 2022) [4] federally recognized Tribes of Alaska. [5] Most Tlingit are Alaska Natives; however, some are First Nations in Canada.
In the 1830s a pidgin trade language based on Haida, known as Haida Jargon, was used in the islands by speakers of English, Haida, Coast Tsimshian, and Heiltsuk. [7] The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858 led to a boom in the town of Victoria , and Southern Haida began traveling there annually, mainly for the purpose of selling their women. [ 8 ]
Natsilane (/ n oʊ t s aɪ ˈ k l ɑː n eɪ / noht-sy-KLAH-nay) [1] is the human hero of the "Blackfish" creation myth, one of the Tlingit and Haida stories about how the various supernatural animal species from the Tlingit culture of the American Northwest coast were created.
The Haida (English: / ... including the Kaigani, who as Alaskans are also part of the Central Council Tlingit Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska government. ...
A genealogical connection between the Tlingit, Eyak and Athabaskan languages was suggested early in the 19th century, but not universally accepted until much later. Haida, with 15 fluent speakers (M. Krauss, 1995), was originally linked to Tlingit by Franz Boas in 1894. Both Haida and Tlingit were then connected to Athabaskan by Edward Sapir in ...
Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw children were forced to attend residential schools, which enforced English use and discouraged other languages. Although Kwakʼwala and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw culture have been well-studied by linguists and anthropologists, these efforts did not reverse the trends leading to language loss .
The Native community can be separated into six large tribes and a number of smaller tribes, including the Iñupiat, Yup'ik, Aleut, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and others. Even with just a small number of communities that make up the entire population, there were more than 300 different languages that the Natives used to communicate with one another.