Sekani language
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The Sekani language is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Sekani people of north-central British Columbia, Canada.

Sounds

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Consonants

Sekani has 33 consonants:

• *Sekani, like other Athabaskan languages, does not contrast fricatives with approximants.

Vowels

Tone

Sekani has two tones, low and high. High is the default. That is, syllables normally have high tone. Syllables phonologically marked for tone are low.

Ethnologue/ISO 639-3 Code

SEK

External links

• Sekani entry on First Nations Languages of British Columbia site
• Bibliography of Sekani Linguistics
• Map of Northwest Coast First Nations (including Sekani)
• Ethnologue entry

Bibliography

• Hargus, Sharon. (1988). The lexical phonology of Sekani. (Outstanding dissertations in linguistics). New York: Garland Publishers. ISBN 0-8240-5187-4
• Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.

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