| content | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Holikachuk | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | United States | |
| Region: | Alaska (lower Yukon River, Innoko River) | |
| Total speakers: | 12 | |
| Language family: | Dené-Yeniseian Na-Dené Athabaskan-Eyak Athabaskan Northern Athabaskan Holikachuk |
|
| Writing system: | Latin (Northern Athabaskan variant) | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ath | |
| ISO 639-3: | hoi | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
This article is about the Holikachuk language. For the Holikachuk people, see Holikachuk.
Holikachuk is an Athabaskan language formerly spoken at the village of Holikachuk on the Innoko River in central Alaska. The Holikachuk people now live in Grayling on the lower Yukon River. Holikachuk is intermediate between Deg Hit'an and Koyukon, and was not identified as a separate language until the 1970s. Of about 200 Holikachuk people, only about 12 speak the language.
Bibliography
- Alaskan Native Language Center. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
 |
This Indigenous languages of the Americas-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 |
This Alaska-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
