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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.
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 ]
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.
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.
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 ...
The Haida (English: / ˈ h aɪ d ə /, Haida: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat) are an Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. They constitute one of 203 First Nations in British Columbia [ 1 ] and 231 federally recognized tribes in Alaska .
The name is a reduced form of , which is a loan word from Tongass Tlingit, where it means 'people of the Nass River'. [3] [better source needed] The official languages of Nisg̱a’a are the Nisg̱a’a language and English. [4]
A more ruthlessly Anglicized pronunciation, [ˈklɪŋkɪt], is commonly used in Alaska, including by many members of the ethnic group concerned (p. 136). Nardog 02:09, 17 May 2020 (UTC) As for the vowels, they say Tlingit has a system of four distinctive vowel qualities, i, e, a, u.