Sekani language

Sekani language

The Sekani language is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Sekani people of north-central British Columbia, Canada.

ounds

Consonants

Sekani has 33 consonants:

* *Sekani, like other Athabaskan languages, does not contrast fricatives with approximants.

Vowels

Ethnologue/ISO 639-3 Code

SEK

External links

* [http://www.ydli.org/langs/sekani.htm Sekani entry on First Nations Languages of British Columbia site]
* [http://www.ydli.org/biblios/sekbib.htm Bibliography of Sekani Linguistics]
* [http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/abed/images/map2.jpgMap of Northwest Coast First Nations] (including Sekani)
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=sek Ethnologue entry]

Bibliography

* Hargus, Sharon. (1988). "The lexical phonology of Sekani". (Outstanding dissertations in linguistics). New York: Garland Publishers. ISBN 0-8240-5187-4
* Mithun, Marianne. (1999). "The languages of Native North America". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.


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