Chipewyan (language)
| Chipewyan | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Canada | |
| speaker | 11900 (as of 2011) | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | Northwest Territories , Canada | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
chp |
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| ISO 639-3 |
chp |
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Chipewyan (Chipewyan: Dënesųłiné ) is the language spoken by the Chipewyan in northwestern Canada. It is one of the eleven official languages in the Northwest Territories and is written there in Latin .
According to the surveys by SIL International, there are very few people who read or write this language. In the remote villages, however, the language is still widely used for everyday communication, and even children there often speak it more fluently than English. According to SIL, the language is considered endangered (6b, threatened) .
Web links
- Official Languages of the Northwest Territories. (PDF) Northwest Territories - Education, Culture and Employment, archived from the original on December 6, 2013 ; accessed on October 18, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ethnological information according to ISO language code 639-3: chp on ethnologue.com. SIL International , accessed February 11, 2016.