Eyak was a Na-Dené language, historically spoken by the Eyak people, indigenous to south-central Alaska, near the mouth of the Copper River. The name Eyak...
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The Eyak (Eyak: ʔi·ya·ɢdəlahɢəyu·, literally "inhabitants of Eyak Village at Mile 6") are an Alaska Native people historically located on the Copper River...
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Athabaskan–Eyak–Tlingit, Tlina–Dene) is a family of Native American languages that includes at least the Athabaskan languages, Eyak, and Tlingit languages. Haida...
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Michael E. Krauss (category Linguists of Na-Dene languages)
Native Language Center. The Alaska Native Language Archive is named after him. Krauss is known first and foremost as an Athabaskanist and Eyak language specialist...
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Marie Smith Jones (category Articles containing Eyak-language text)
surviving speaker of the Eyak language of Southcentral Alaska. She was born in Cordova, Alaska, was an honorary chief of the Eyak Nation and the last remaining...
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her farewell, they also bid farewell to the Eyak language as Marie was the last fluent speaker of the language." Overall, there are many different reasons...
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Proto-Athabaskan language. This resembles both Tlingit and Eyak much more than most of the daughter languages in the Athabaskan family. Although Ethnologue still...
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Voiceless velar fricative (category Articles containing Eyak-language text)
voiceless velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It was part of the consonant inventory of Old English and can still be...
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reduced gradually from south to north. The shared features between the Eyak language, found around the Copper River delta, and Tongass Tlingit, near the...
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Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives (category Articles containing Eyak-language text)
OCLC 7080610 – via ProQuest. Krauss, Michael E. (27 June 2016) [1965]. "Eyak: a preliminary report". Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 10 (2–3). Oxford...
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