Dogrib language
| Dogrib Tłįchǫ Yatiì |
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| Spoken in: | Canada | |
| Region: | Northwest Territories | |
| Total speakers: | 2,640 [1] | |
| Language family: | Dené-Yeniseian Na-Dené Athabaskan-Eyak Athabaskan Northern Athabaskan Dogrib |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in: | Northwest Territories | |
| Regulated by: | No official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | None | |
| ISO 639-2: | dgr | |
| ISO 639-3: | dgr | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Dogrib (also Tłįchǫ Yatiì, [tɬĩtʃõ jatîː]) is a language spoken by the First Nations Tłįchǫ people of the Canadian territory Northwest Territories. According to Statistics Canada in 2006, there were approximately 2,640 people who spoke Dogrib.[1]
The Dogrib region covers the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, reaching almost up to Great Bear Lake. Rae-Edzo, now known by its Dogrib name, Behchokǫ, is the largest community in the Dogrib Region.
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The consonants of Dogrib in the standard orthography are listed below (with IPA notation in brackets):
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
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| central | lateral | plain | labialized | ||||||
| Nasal | plain | m /m/ | n /n/ | ||||||
| prenasalized | mb /mb/ | nd /nd/ | |||||||
| Plosive | voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /ɡ/ | gw /ɡʷ/ | ||||
| voiceless | t /t/ | k /k/ | kw /kʷ/ | ’ /ʔ/ | |||||
| ejective | t’ /tʼ/ | k’ /kʼ/ | kw’ /kʷʼ/ | ||||||
| Affricate | voiced | dz /dz/ | dl /dɮ/ | j /dʒ/ | |||||
| voiceless | ts /ts/ | tl /tɬ/ | ch /tʃ/ | ||||||
| ejective | ts’ /tsʼ/ | tl’ /tɬʼ/ | ch’ /tʃʼ/ | ||||||
| Fricative | voiced | z /z/ | zh /ʒ/ | gh /ɣ/ | |||||
| voiceless | s /s/ | ł /ɬ/ | sh /ʃ/ | x /x/ | h /h/ | ||||
| Approximant | voiced | r /ɹ/ | l /l/ | y /j/ | w /w/ | ||||
| voiceless | wh /ʍ/ | ||||||||
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- short
- a /a/
- e /e/
- i /i/
- o /o/
- long
- aa /aː/
- ee /eː/
- ǫǫ /õː/
- nasal vowels are marked by an ogonek, e.g., ą
- low tone is marked with a grave accent, e.g., à
- high tone is never marked
- short
- Coleman, Phyllis Young. Dogrib Phonology. Ann Arbor, Michigan, [etc.]: University Microfilms International, 1979.
- Feenstra, Jacob. Tłįįchǫ Yati Enįhtł'è = Dogrib Dictionary. Rae-Edzo, N.W.T.: Dogrib Divisional Board of Education, 1992.
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