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The Gwichʼin language ( Dinju Zhuh Kʼyuu) [4] belongs to the Athabaskan language family and is spoken by the Gwich'in First Nation (Canada) / Alaska Native People (United States). It is also known in older or dialect-specific publications as Kutchin, Takudh, Tukudh, or Loucheux. [5]
The Gwich’in language is one in the family of 47 Athabascan languages spoken in Alaska, Canada, western and southwestern United States. Athabascan languages are also part of a larger language family called Na Dene that includes Tlingit and Eyak. All of the Na Dene languages are considered endangered (Krauss, 1998), with some, like Eyak and ...
The Gwich’in Language has been taught in the Chief Zzeh Gittlit School in Old Crow since the early 1970’s. Gwich’in classes are attended by virtually all the students during the year. The first writing system for the Gwich’in language was created by Archdeacon Robert McDonald (1829-1913), a Church of England missionary who began working ...
The Gwich'in made artifacts from stone, bone, skin, wood, sinew, teeth, and other raw materials. In hunting they guided caribou into surrounds constructed from posts, trees, brush, and human-shaped piles of moss where they snared, speared, and shot them with birch bows and spruce arrows tipped with flint or antler.
Gwich'in (Kutchin) is the Athabascan language spoken in the northeastern Alaska villages of Arctic Village, Venetie, Fort Yukon, Chalkyitsik, Circle, and Birch Creek, as well as in a wide adjacent area of the Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory. The Gwich'in population of Alaska is about 1,100, and of that number about 300 are speakers of ...
The Gwichʼin language belongs to the Athabaskan language family and is spoken by the Gwich'in First Nation (Canada) / Alaska Native People. It is also known in older or dialect-specific publications as Kutchin, Takudh, Tukudh, or Loucheux. Gwich'in is spoken primarily in the towns of Inuvik, Aklavik, Fort McPherson, and Tsiigehtchic, all in the Northwest Territories and Old Crow in Yukon of ...
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