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	Chipewyan language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Chipewyan language is the language spoken by the Chipewyan people of central Canada (parts of Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan) and is also called Dene.
		Chipewyan is part of the Athabaskan family and is related to the Navajo language.
		Chipewyan is one of the official languages of the Northwest Territories, the others being English, French, Cree language, Dogrib, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, and Slavey.
	chipewyan-language.iqnaut.net (159 words)

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		Language in this awesome country was, for me, mainly a language of silence, long, deep pools of silence, like the lakes of this watery and mountainous land.
		Language, when well-wrought and mindful, gracious, is at once a distillation of experience and the creation of a delicate and ceremonial world, a human world within the larger and defining dimensions of a more-than-human world.
		At one time I had a language, or the possibility of one, a mode of perception at any rate, a home within, or defined by, the more-than-human-a delicate and ceremonial world, which, though delicate, was more substantial and more robust than the rarified academic vocabularies I have come to inhabit.
	www.uwmanitowoc.uwc.edu /Staff/awhite/jim95.htm (4337 words)

	SILEWP 2000-001
		Because most languages are spoken by small populations living in remote locations, and because of the sheer number of languages involved, determining the complete inventory of languages spoken in the world is an incredibly difficult research task.
		For linguists, for language communities that are just beginning to develop literature in their language, or for agencies wanting to track languages that are not written or only in the initial stages of literacy, this may not be feasible.
		That is, in the occasional instances when a language is removed from the inventory (for instance, because it is deemed on the basis of improved evidence to be a dialect of another language), its three-letter code is retired from service, never to be reassigned later.
	www.sil.org /silewp/2000/001/SILEWP2000-001.html (13296 words)

	Denesulhine Language
		The Dënesųłiné language is spoken in a large territory including northern Manitoba, northern Saskatchewan, north-eastern Alberta, south-eastern North-West Territories, and the south-western edge of ᓄᓇᕗᑦ (Nunavut).
		The Canadian Census indicates 935 Chipewyan speakers, to which would have to be added a portion of the 10,585 who are reported as Dene speakers.
		Phonetically /l/ and /y/ are classified in the resonants row, but in the language, /l/ is the voiced partner of /ł/, and /y/ is the voiced counterpart of /sh/.
	www.languagegeek.com /dene/denesulhine/denesulhine.html (359 words)

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		Chipewyan is a Northern Athapaskan language which has been described as a tone language exhibiting high-marked tone (Li 1933, 1946; Krauss 1978, Cook and Rice 1989; Gessner 1999; and others).
		Languages throughout the world can be classified as one of three types of systems in terms of their prosodic properties: stress accent, pitch accent, or tone.
		Since languages such as Chipewyan which exhibit only one marked tone may in fact be a type of pitch accent system, further investigation of the phonetic properties of tone in Chipewyan was necessary to determine whether it may be characterized in this way.
	www.uaf.edu /anlc/alc/2000/workshop/gessner.htm (250 words)

	The Dene Standardization Project
		The five Dene languages spoken in the NWT are Gwich'in (formerly known as Loucheux), South Slavey, North Slavey, Chipewyan, and Dogrib.
		The five Dene languages of the NWT are recognized as official languages under the Official Languages Act (1984, rev. 1986).
		All issues relating to the practical orthographies were discussed at the community level and language specific recommendations were submitted to a committee of native language specialists as an outgrowth of the community meetings.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jar/NALI3.html (1891 words)

	Bibiography of Works Referenced
		Kirkby, W.W. Manual of Devotion and Instruction in the Chipewyan Language, for the Indians of Churchill.
		Reeve, W.D. Prayers, lessons and hymns in the Tenni or Slavi language of the Indians of Mackenzie River in the North-West Territory of Canada / compiled by the Bishop of the diocese.
		Buechel, Eugene S.J. A Grammar of Lakota: The Language of the Teton Sioux Indians.
	www.languagegeek.com /bibliography/allref.html (1695 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems: Livres en anglais: Florian Coulmas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sociolinguist Florian Coulmas, editor of The Handbook of Sociolinguistics and associate editor of The International Journal of the Sociology of Language, draws on disciplines ranging from psychology to epigraphy to present a work that is both far-reaching in its scope and deep enough to be of interest to serious theorists.
		The essays are grouped by topics, but a detailed index guides the user to specific terms or languages desired.
		In the article on the Cree Syllabary all scripts are mentioned, but tables are not provided for Inuktitut (Inuit language) or Chipewyan.
	www.amazon.fr /Blackwell-Encyclopedia-Writing-Systems/dp/063121481X (669 words)

	Chipewyan/Dene Language
		Chipewyan is an Athabaskan language of Northern Canada.
		Though many Chipewyan people are bilingual in Chippewa or Cree, it is actually not related to those languages at all.
		Language courses in Cree, Saulteaux, Nakota, Dakota, and Dene
	www.native-languages.org /chipewyin.htm (222 words)

	Fanggui Li Collection, American Philosophical Society
		Although Li retained an interest in Athapascan languages, by 1937 he became almost completely absorbed in classifying the major languages and dialects of China, the work for which he is best remembered.
		The heart of the Fanggui Li Collection is comprised of ten notebooks kept by the Chinese-American linguist Fanggui Li relating to his research on the Chipewyan language in 1928.
		The balance of the collection consists of an extensive slipfile for the Chipewyan language, and two audio cassettes of oral history interviews conducted by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson in 1982, concering Li's memories of Edward Sapir and other colleagues in linguistics.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/l/li.htm (859 words)

	A HIGH-TECH VISION
		The Chipewyan or Denesuline are part of the Dene tribal group of Athapascan Indians and are the most widespread tribe in all of Canada.
		As a Dene language consultant, I traveled to these villages mainly by small plane such as the Otter and Beaver; many communities were only accessible by air or by river.
		As one moves to the language room, an instructor is teaching the Chipewyan language, from beginner to advances lessons, using a Chipewyan dictionary that is acceptable to all the 30 Canadian Denesuline communities.
	www.spiritwatch.ca /HighTechVision.htm (1115 words)

	(1/22/2000) Canadian Project to Save Dying Native Language
		Native language on the verge of extinction in northern Alberta may be brought back to life thanks partly to a University of Alberta-based linguistics project, as researchers study the Chipewyan (or Dene Suline) language in the Cold Lake First Nations community.
		Teaching it from scratch is a challenge since the language is enormously complex.
		University-level courses in the language will also be initiated at the U of A. "Aboriginal peoples are very concerned about their languages disappearing off off the face the earth, and well they should be," says Dr. Heather Blair, who will be responsible for designing curriculum for Cold Lake schools.
	www.monitor.net /monitor/0001a/chipewyan.html (695 words)

	Language - Dene
		The Athapaskan language spoken in Saskatchewan is called by linguists, Chipewyan.
		Unlike many Aboriginal languages, Chipewyan (or Dene, as it is called in this province), is still the language of use in many communities.
		Dene was not originally a written language but in the latter part of the 19th century the syllabic system developed for the Cree by the Methodist minister James Evans was adapted for writing the Dene language.
	www.kayas.ca /dene.html (412 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Other Nadene
		You have reached the page for Other Nadene Languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		The Athapaskan languages include Beaver, Chipewyan (not to be confused with Chippewa, an alternate name for Ojibwa, which belongs to the Algonkian-Mosan language family), Dogrib, Hupa, Matole, and Sarsi, as well as the Apachean languages which include Apache and Navajo.
		Chipewyan is spoken in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and in the Northwest Territories, especially around Great Slave Lake.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/onadeneh.htm (1741 words)

	About NALI and Contributors
		The International Native American Language Issues (NALI) Institute is a non-profit organization established to examine Native language and cultural concerns and related educational and research issues.
		It sponsors an annual institute designed to bring together traditional language practitioners and language professionals with a focus on the need to balance the demands of modern education with the wisdom of traditional ways of teaching and the richness of the indigenous languages and cultures of the Americas.
		She is currently Director of the Territorial Government's Language Bureau and is responsible for the management and development of programs designed to provide interpreting, translating, and public information services in all nine official languages of the Northwest Territories.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jar/NALI_Appendix.html (1461 words)

	The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language 2nd Edition - D. Crystal, Abaza, Achehnese, Acholi, Adamawa, Adangme, Afrikaans, ...
		This Second Edition of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language presents a mass of new information and introduces the subject of language to a fresh generation of students and general readers.
		Probably the most successful general study of language ever published, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language covers all the major themes of language study, including popular ideas about language, language and identity, the structure of language, speaking and listening, writing, reading, and signing, language acquisition, the neurological basis of language, and languages of the world.
		There is new material on acoustics, physiological concepts of language, and World English, and a complete update of the language distribution maps, language-speaking statistics, table of the world's languages, and further reading.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Products/102908.htm (451 words)

	June 2006 Edition
		The 2006 International Dene Languages Conference was held in Yellowknife, NT from June 12-15.
		People like Mary Heron who at 78 is still helping to encourage, support and pass the culture and language on… that is the spirit we need,” stated Steve Lafferty, a Chipewyan language speaker and Coordinator of the Aboriginal Language and Cultural Instructor Program at Aurora College.
		Mary Heron was born to Chipewyan Dene and Metis parents in Ft. Smith, Northwest Territories in 1927.
	www.uaf.edu /anlc/alc/2006/nativejournal-200606.html (3094 words)

	Dene Suline language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dene Suline (also Dëne Sųłiné, Dene Sųłiné, Chipewyan, Dene Suliné, Dëne Suliné, Dene Soun’liné) is the language spoken by the Chipewyan people of central Canada (parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut) and is also called Dene.
		Dene Suline is one of the official languages of the Northwest Territories, the others being English, French, Cree, Dogrib, Gwichʼin, Inuktitut, and Slavey.
		Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chipewyan_language (231 words)

	Folio: Project to save dying Chipewyan language \| January 7, 2000
		An aboriginal language on the verge of extinction in northern Alberta may be brought back to life thanks partly to a U of A-based linguistics project.
		Janvier says he'd like to see children in grades one to four taught exclusively in Chipewyan, with English introduced as a second language in Grade 5.
		University-level courses in the language will also be initiated at the U of A. "Aboriginal peoples are very concerned about their languages disappearing off the face of the earth, and well they should be," says Dr. Heather Blair, who will be responsible for designing curriculum for Cold Lake schools.
	www.ualberta.ca /~publicas/folio/37/09/front.html (719 words)

	Folio: Exploring language across cultures \| November 21, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In addition to shedding light on the acquisition, phonetics, psycholinguistics, and structure of local minority languages, researchers also hope to learn more about language disorders such as aphasia, a loss of speech or understanding of language, and dyslexia,a 'reading disorder'.
		It wasn't until the Canada Foundation for Innovation recognized the strength of the U of A Department of Linguistics, however, that all of this work was consolidated in the new centre, which opened Nov. 3.
		And there is the new RV for field research, equipped with lab equipment necessary to conduct state-of-the-art language analysis among populations never before studied.
	www.ualberta.ca /~publicas/folio/41/06/07.html (578 words)

	NCEM -- Book Store -- Denesuline Language Resources
		Intended mostly for fluent speakers of the language.
		Analyzes the verb system of the Denesuline language by giving a complete conjugation of 12 sample verbs, including singular/dual/plural forms, present/past/future tense, and 9 classificatory endings.
		Covers many aspects of the Denesuline language, including sentence structure and an indepth look at the various components of the verbs.
	ncem.gospelcom.net /md/denesulinelanguage.htm (363 words)

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		Topics of interest for cognitive linguistics include the structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, metaphor, mental imagery, and cognitive models), the functional principles of linguistic organization (such as iconicity and naturalness), the conceptual interface between syntax and semantics, the experiential and pragmatic background of language-in-use, and the relationship between language and thought.
		Language Acquisition US $17.95 (paper) $39.95 (cloth) ISBN 1-881526-04-6 (paper), 1-881526-05-4 (cloth) Distributed by The University of Chicago Press (1-800-621-2736) Formally "Papers and Reports on Child Language Development," works included here cover a broad spectrum of structures in language acquisition discussed at the 1992 meeting of the Child Language Research Forum.
		We still have a way to go to explain all of language and language acquisition, but the nativist perspective is not universal, and the universals need not take the form of grammar.
	www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.5/no.201-250 (13675 words)

	NLRRD: Language Programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		These entries represent language programs in North America, Canada, Alaska, Mexico and the Pacific Region.
		They are organized here by the language they represent.
		Descriptions of the language programs were gathered by phone interview during May of 1999.
	www.indigenous-language.org /resources/directory/language_programs.html (59 words)

	Chipewyan Words
		Though we hope to add a set of 100 common words for each language eventually, complete with phonetic lettering and possibly even audio, that will have to wait until we get a grant of some kind.
		All the nouns are singular and all the verbs are 3rd person singular ("he or she sings") because many Native American languages don't have a separate infinitive ("to sing") the way English and French do.
		If you would like to know a Chipewyan word that is not currently on our page, you can take part in our Indian translations fundraiser, buy a Chipewyan dictionary, or visit our main Chipewyan language site for more free resources.
	www.native-languages.org /chipewyan_words.htm (187 words)

	LINGUIST List 5.201: Chipewyan; Affect; Body language; Linguistics; Spanish
		Cook regards these three functions as distinct, and concludes that -u is the common phonological representation for three distinct morphemes.
		There are obvious differences, of course; most importantly, the Vedic u conjoins only clauses, while the Chipewyan u can apparently conjoin NPs as well.
		And, of course, this is pure coincidence; no one's suggesting a genetic link between Sanskrit and Chipewyan on the basis of one enclitic.) -- Dr.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/5/5-201.html (1023 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions - Aboriginal Resources and Services
		- Kasyan, M.J. Dene (Chipewyan) language classification verbs" (1997).
		If you would like to find out about more other language resources, you may want to conduct some searches of your own on the online interface of our National Union Catalogue, known as AMICUS Web, and available at: http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/aaweb/aalogine.htm.
		The most general search that you could do would be to choose the "Subject Keyword" index and then type in "Indians language" (but without the quotations) as you will retrieve over 500 results.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /aboriginal/020008-3000.5-e.html (687 words)

	Terralingua -- Organizations Working on Linguistic Diversity Issues: the Americas
		The Native American Language Center (cougar.ucdavis.edu/nas/NALC/home.html) is part of the University of California at Davis, U.S.A. Contact Martha J. Macri, Director, N.A.L.C., Department of Native Studies, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616 U.S.A.; mjmacri@ucdavis.edu.
		The Taino Language Project (www.hartford-hwp.com/taino/docs/proj-5.html) works to restore the language, which is part of the Arawakan linguistic group in South America.
		Among indigenous languages we currently work with Mapudungun and Yahgan, and we are planning to in include Kawesqar or Alacaluf in the future.
	www.terralingua.org /OrgsAmericas.html (3522 words)

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