Dogrib

Facts

  • Language: Dogrib
  • Alternate names: Thlingchadine, Tłı̨chǫ
  • Language code: dgr
  • Language family: Eyak-Athabaskan, Athabaskan, Northern Athabaskan (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 2,470
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    The Detah-Ndilo dialect developed from intermarriage between the Yellowknife subdivision of the Chipewyan and the Dogrib. Lexical similarity 84%% with Southern Slavey; 82%% with Northern Slavey.