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Witsuwit'en dialect


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  • Variants

    • Babine-Witsuwit'en dialect
    • Bulkley Lakes dialect
    • River Babine dialect
    • Wetsuset'en dialect
    • Wet'suwet'en dialect
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    • found: Work cat.: Hargus, S. Witsuwit'en grammar, ©2007:p. 3 (Witsuwit'en is a dialect of Witsuwit'en-Babine (Athabaskan family); Babine-Takla and Witsuwit'en are the main dialect divisions within Witsuwit'en-Babine; Witsuwit'en-Babine is spoken in western central British Columbia) p. 6 (the two main dialects of Witsuwit'en-Babine are Witsuwit'en and U'in Wit'en (also known as Babine)) p. 14 (Story 1984 refers to the language as "Babine", using the terms "Lake Babine" and "River Babine" for the Babine and Witsuwit'en dialects, respectively) p. 15 (Witsuwit'en is also written locally as Wet'suwet'en) (OCoLC)79256044
    • found: Ethnologue, Oct. 4, 2022(Babine, a language of Canada, alternate names: Babine Carrier, Lake Babine, Nadot'en, Nat'oot'en, Northern Carrier, dialects: Wetsuset'en (Babine-Witsuwit'en, Bulkley Lakes, Witsuwit'en), Babine Proper, Takla, Francois Lake)
    • found: Office of the Wet'suwet'en website, Oct. 4, 2022:Our culture > Wet'suwet'en language (The Wet'suwet'en people speak Witsuwit'en, a dialect of the Babine-Witsuwit'en language which, like its sister language Carrier, is a member of the Athabaskan family)
    • found: Omniglot website, Oct. 4, 2022(Babine-Witsuwit'en; Athabaskan language spoken in parts of British Columbia; two main dialects of Babine-Witsuwit'en: Babine (Nedut'en), which is spoken around Babine, Trembleur and Takla Lakes; and Witsuwit'en, which is spoken in the Bulkley Valley by Broman and Skins Lakes)
  • LC Classification

    • PM664.Z9W57
  • History Notes

    • [Established April 2023.]
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  • Change Notes

    • 2022-10-04: new
    • 2023-04-14: revised
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