Carrier language

Dakelh
Carrier
ᑕᗸᒡ
Native toCanada
RegionCentral Interior of British Columbia
Ethnicity9,350 Carrier people (2014, FPCC)
Native speakers
1,270 (2016 census)[1]
Dialects
Carrier Linguistic Committee alphabet
Carrier syllabics
Language codes
ISO 639-3
crx – Carrier
Glottologcarr1248
ELPDakelh (Carrier)
Carrier language communities in British Columbia
Carrier is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.
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The Dakelh (ᑕᗸᒡ) or Carrier language is a Northern Athabaskan language. It is named after the Dakelh people, a First Nations people of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, for whom Carrier has been a common English name derived from French explorers naming of the people. Dakelh people speak two related languages. One, Babine-Witsuwit'en, is sometimes referred to as Northern Carrier. The other includes what are sometimes referred to as Central Carrier and Southern Carrier.

  1. ^ "Aboriginal Mother Tongue (90)". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2018-05-26.