Ahtna language
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| Ahtna | ||
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| Spoken in: | United States | |
| Region: | Alaska (Copper River region) | |
| Total speakers: | 80 | |
| Language family: | Na-Dené Athabaskan-Eyak Athabaskan Northern Ahtna |
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| Writing system: | Latin (Ahtna variant) | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ath | |
| ISO 639-3: | aht | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
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.
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