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| 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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Phonology
Consonants
The consonants of Dogrib in the standard orthography are listed below (with IPA notation in brackets):
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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/ | ||||||||
Vowels
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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
Notes
Further reading
- 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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