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Preferred term

ahtAhtena  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Ahtna or Ahtena is the Na-Dené language of the Ahtna ethnic group of the Copper River area of Alaska. The language is also known as Copper River or Mednovskiy. There are 80 speakers out of a population of 500, and the language is facing extinction but many younger people are learning it to try to keep it from extinction.

Entry terms

  • Ahtna language

ISO 639-3 code

  • aht

Notation

  • aht

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URI

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

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