Koyukon

Facts

  • Language: Koyukon
  • Alternate names: Denaakk'e, Ten'a
  • Language code: koy
  • Language family: Eyak-Athabaskan, Athabaskan, Northern Athabaskan (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 150
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    "The name Koyukon is not Koyukon in origin or Athabaskan at all; it comes through a Russian spelling for an Eskimo term that a Russian trader decided for no clear reason to apply to the Koyukuk River." (Krauss 2000)