Sekani language
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The Sekani language is a Northern Athapaskan language spoken by the Sekani people of north-central British Columbia, Canada.
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[edit] Sounds
[edit] Consonants
Sekani has 33 consonants:
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar |
Velar | Glottal | ||||
| central | lateral | plain | labial | |||||
| Stop | unaspirated | p | t | k | kʷ | |||
| aspirated | (pʰ) | tʰ | kʰ | kʷʰ | ||||
| ejective | tʼ | kʼ | kʼʷ | ʔ | ||||
| Affricate | unaspirated | ʦ | tɬ | ʧ | ||||
| aspirated | ʦʰ | tɬʰ | ʧʰ | |||||
| ejective | ʦʼ | tɬʼ | ʧʼ | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Fricative- Approximant* |
voiceless | s | ɬ | ç | x | xʷ | h | |
| voiced | z | l | j | ɣ | w | |||
- *Sekani, like other Athabaskan languages, does not contrast fricatives with approximants.
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Low | a |
[edit] Ethnologue/ISO/DIS 639-3 Code
SEK
[edit] External links
- Sekani entry on First Nations Languages of British Columbia site
- Bibliography of Sekani Linguistics
- Map of Northwest Coast First Nations (including Sekani)
- Ethnologue entry
[edit] 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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