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Preferred term

taaLower Tanana  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Lower Tanana (also Tanana and/or Middle Tanana) is an endangered Athabaskan language spoken in Interior Alaska in the lower Tanana River villages of Minto and Nenana. Of about 380 Tanana people in the two villages, about 30 still speak the language. The Athabascan bands that formerly extended between the Salcha and the Goodpaster Rivers spoke a distinct dialect that can be termed the Middle Tanana language.

Entry terms

  • Lower Tanana language
  • Tanana, Lower

ISO 639-3 code

  • taa

Notation

  • taa

URI

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

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