Back Na-Dené-tale Afrikaans Luengas na-dene AN لغات نا-ديني Arabic Llingües na-dené AST Na-Dene dilləri Azerbaijani نا-دنه دیللری AZB На-дэне Byelorussian Yezhoù na-dene Breton Na-dené Catalan Jazyky na-dené Czech
| Na-Dene | |
|---|---|
| Athabaskan–Eyak–Tlingit | |
| Geographic distribution | North America |
| Linguistic classification | Dené–Yeniseian?
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| Proto-language | Proto-Na-Dene |
| Subdivisions | |
| ISO 639-5 | xnd |
| Glottolog | atha1245 |
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Na-Dene (/ˌnɑːdɪˈneɪ/ NAH-dih-NAY; also Nadene, Na-Dené, Athabaskan–Eyak–Tlingit, Tlina–Dene) is a family of Native American languages that includes at least the Athabaskan languages, Eyak, and Tlingit languages. Haida was formerly included, but is now considered doubtful. By far the most widely spoken Na-Dene language today is Navajo.
In February 2008, a proposal connecting Na-Dene (excluding Haida) to the Yeniseian languages of central Siberia into a Dené–Yeniseian family was published and well-received by a number of linguists.[1] It was proposed in a 2014 paper that the Na-Dene languages of North America and the Yeniseian languages of Siberia had a common origin in a language spoken in Beringia, between the two continents.[2]
- ^ Dene–Yeniseic Symposium Archived 2018-11-15 at the Wayback Machine, University of Alaska Fairbanks, February 2008, accessed 30 Mar 2010
- ^ Mark A. Sicoli and Gary Holton, Linguistic Phylogenies Support Back-Migration from Beringia to Asia, PLoS ONE, March 12, 2014, accessed November 25, 2014.
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