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Preferred term

kuuUpper Kuskokwim  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Upper Kuskokwim language (also called Kolchan or Goltsan) is an Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené language family. It is spoken in the Upper Kuskokwim River villages of Nikolai, Telida, and McGrath, Alaska. About 40 of a total of 160 Upper Kuskokwim people (Dichinanek’ Hwt’ana) still speak the language. A practical orthography of the language was established by Raymond Collins, who in 1964 began linguistic work at Nikolai.

Entry terms

  • Kuskokwim, Upper
  • Upper Kuskokwim language

ISO 639-3 code

  • kuu

Notation

  • kuu

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URI

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

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