Dena'ina (langue)

langue athapascane

Le dena’ina, ou tanaina, est une langue autochtone parlée dans la région du Golfe de Cook, en Alaska. Elle fait partie de la famille des langues athapascanes septentrionales.

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En 2007, sur une population de 900 Dena'ina, entre 75 et 95 parlent cette langue[1].

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Elle se divise en quatre dialectes parlés dans différentes localités :

  1. Eklutna, Knik-Fairview, Susitna, Tyonek
  2. Kenai, Kustatan, Seldovia
  3. Pedro Bay, Old Iliamna, autour du Lac Iliamna
  4. Nondalton, Lime Village

Recherche modifier

Elle est étudiée par les linguistes James Kari et Joan M. Tenenbaum depuis les années 1970.

Notes et références modifier

  1. « Redirected », sur Ethnologue, (consulté le ).

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Bibliographie modifier

  • Balluta, Alex & Gladys Evanoff. 2004. Dena'ina Qenaga Du'idnaghelnik (Dena'ina Words Sound Pretty). Dena'ina Phrases 1: Nondalton Dialect, ed. by Olga Müller. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center; Anchorage: Alaska Native Heritage Center. [1]
  • Boraas, Alan. 2009. An Introduction to Dena'ina Grammar: The Kenai (Outer Inlet) Dialect. Kenai Peninsula College. [2]
  • Chickalusion, Maxim, et al. 1980. Q'udi Heyi Niłch'diluyi Sukdu'a: "This Years Collected Stories.(Dena'ina Stories from Tyonek and Illiamna Lake). Anchorage: National Bilingual Materials Development Center.
  • Ellanna, Linda & Andrew Balluta. 1992. Nuvendaltin Quht'ana: The People of Nondalton. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
  • Johnson, Walter. 2004. Sukdu Neł Nuhtghelnek: I'll Tell You A Story: Stories I Recall From Growing Up On Iliamna Lake. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
  • Kalifornsky, Peter. 1991 "K'tl'egh'i Sukdu, A Dena'ina Legacy: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky" edited by James Kari and Alan Boraas. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
  • Kari, James. 1975. A classification of the Tanaina dialects. Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 17:49-55.
  • Kari, James. 2007. Dena'ina Topical Dictionary. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center. (ISBN 978-1-55500-091-2).
  • Kari, James, Priscilla Russell Kari and Jane McGary. 1983. Dena’ina Ełnena: Tanaina Country. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center. Includes good bibliography and many photographs
  • Kari, Priscilla Russell. 1987. Tanaina Plantlore: Dena’ina K’et’una. 2nd ed. Anchorage: Alaska Park Service. Ethnobotany and much other cultural information.
  • Mithun, Marianne. 1999. The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (ISBN 0-521-23228-7) (hbk); (ISBN 0-521-29875-X).
  • Osgood, Cornelius. 1937. Contributions to the Ethnography of the Tanaina. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 16.
  • Stephan, Sava. 2005. Upper Inlet Dena’ina Language Lessons, ed. by James Kari. Anchorage: Alaska Native Heritage Center. [3]
  • Tenenbaum, Joan. 1978. Morphology and semantics of the Tanaina verb. (Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University).
  • Tenenbaum, Joan. 2006. Dena'ina Sukdu'a 3rd ed. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center. (ISBN 1-55500-090-8).
  • Townsend, Joan B. 1981. “Tanaina.” In June Helm, ed., Subarctic: Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 6. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.
  • Wassillie, Albert. 1980. Nuvendaltun Ht’ana Sukdu’a: Nondalton People’s Stories. Anchorage: National Bilingual Materials Development Center.

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