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Preferred term

gwiGwichʼin  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Gwich’in language is the Athabaskan language of the Gwich’in indigenous people. It is also known in older or dialect-specific publications as Kutchin, Takudh, Tukudh, or Loucheux. In the Northwest Territories and Yukon of Canada, it is used principally in the towns of Inuvik, Aklavik, Fort McPherson, Old Crow, and Tsiigehtchic (formerly Arctic Red River). There are about 430 Gwich’in speakers in Canada out of a total Gwich’in population of 1,900.

Entry terms

  • Gwich'in
  • Gwich’in language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • gwi

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • gwi

ISO 639-3 code

  • gwi

Notation

  • gwi

In other languages

  • gwichʼin

    French

  • gwich'in
  • Gwich’in
  • Kutchin-Sprache

    German

  • gwichʼin

    Italian

  • gwichʼin

    Portuguese

  • Língua gwich’in
  • kutchin

    Spanish

  • Idioma gwich'in

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gwi

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