Kaska language
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Not to be confused with Kaskian language.
| Kaska | |
|---|---|
| Dene Zágéʼ | |
| Native to | Canada |
| Ethnicity | Kaska people |
Native speakers | 300 (2011 census)[1] |
|
Dené–Yeniseian?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kkz |
Kaska is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Kaska people in the southeastern Yukon territory and northern British Columbia in Canada.
Phonetics
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveopalatal | Palatal (pre-velar) |
Velar | Uvular (post-velar) |
Laryngeal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop (oral) | plain | voiceless | p | t | k | |||||||
| voiced | b | d | g | |||||||||
| glottalized | voiceless (ejective) | t̕ | k̓ | ʔ | ||||||||
| voiced (imploded) | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | central | voiceless | ts | tʃ | ||||||||
| voiced | dz | dʒ | ||||||||||
| glottalized | ts' | tʃ' | ||||||||||
| lateral | voiceless | tɬ | ||||||||||
| voiced | dl | |||||||||||
| glottalized | tɬ' | |||||||||||
| Fricative | central | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | h | ||||||
| voiced | z | ʒ | ʁ | |||||||||
| glottalized | ||||||||||||
| lateral | voiceless | ɬ | ||||||||||
| glottalized | ||||||||||||
| Nasal | voiceless | |||||||||||
| voiced | m | n | ||||||||||
| glottalized | ||||||||||||
| Liquid | rhotic | plain | r | |||||||||
| glottalized | ||||||||||||
| lateral | plain | l | ||||||||||
| glottalized | ||||||||||||
| glide | plain | j | ||||||||||
| glottalized | ||||||||||||
Vowels
Kaska makes use of the vowels /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/, which, through various combinations of inflection (high, falling, and rising tone), lengthening and nasalization, produce about 60 vowel sounds in total.
See also
References
- ↑ Kaska reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- Yukon Native Language Center
- Kaska Language Website, University of British Columbia
- Kaska Dena Council
- Kaska Welcome Page - First Voices
- Yukon Native Language Centre
Further reading
- Kaska Tribal Council. Guzāgi k'ū́gé': our language book : nouns : Kaska, Mountain Slavey and Sekani. [Watson Lake, Yukon]: Kaska Tribal Council, 1997. ISBN 0-9682022-0-9
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