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Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit languages map

31 Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit languages are on the map, most of them in Canada and United States. The best-known members include Navajo, Western Apache and Chipewyan. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

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  • Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit family at a glance

  • 31languages
  • 23drawn as areas
  • 8shown as points

Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

  1. Where is Navajo spoken? (about 169,000 speakers)
  2. Where is Western Apache spoken? (about 13,000 speakers)
  3. Where is Chipewyan spoken? (about 11,000 speakers)
  4. Where is Dogrib spoken? (about 1,735 speakers)
  5. Where is Central Carrier spoken? (about 1,270 speakers)
  6. Where is Chilcotin-Nicola spoken? (about 860 speakers)
  7. Where is Gwich'in spoken? (about 670 speakers)
  8. Where is Tlingit spoken? (about 500 speakers)
  9. Where is Koyukon spoken? (about 300 speakers)
  10. Where is Witsuwit'en-Babine spoken? (about 175 speakers)

Where Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit languages are spoken

Countries with the most Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 31 Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit languages, A to Z

Questions about Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit languages

How many Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit languages are there?

31 living Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit languages spoken?

Canada (19) and United States (16) have the most Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Navajo (about 169,000), Western Apache (about 13,000) and Chipewyan (about 11,000). These figures differ between sources and years.

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