| 词条 | Tsetsaut language |
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|name=Tsetsaut |nativename=Wetaŀ |states=Canada |region=Northern British Columbia |ethnicity=Tsetsaut |extinct=mid 20th century |ref={{citation needed|date=March 2015}} |familycolor=Dené-Yeniseian |fam2=Na-Dené |fam3=Athabaskan |fam4=Northern Athabaskan |iso3=txc |glotto=tset1236 |glottorefname=Tsetsaut |linglist=txc |notice=IPA }} The Tsetsaut language is an extinct Athabascan language formerly spoken by the now-extinct Tsetsaut in the Behm and Portland Canal area of Southeast Alaska and northwestern British Columbia. Virtually everything known of the language comes from the limited material recorded by Franz Boas in 1894 from two Tsetsaut slaves of the Nisga'a, which is enough to establish that Tsetsaut formed its own branch of Athabaskan. It is not known precisely when the language became extinct. One speaker was still alive in 1927.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} The Nisga'a name for the Tsetsaut people is "Jits'aawit"[1] The Tsetsaut referred to themselves as the Wetaŀ. The English name Tsetsaut is an anglicization of {{IPA|[tsʼətsʼaut]}}, "those of the interior", used by the Gitxsan and Nisga'a to refer to the Athabaskan-speaking people to the north and east of them, including not only the Tsetsaut but some Tahltan and Sekani. ExamplesThe examples by Merritt Ruhlen:[2] Bibliography
References1. ^{{BCGNIS|53995|K'alii Xk'alaan}} 2. ^Merritt Ruhlen (1994) On the Origin of Languages (Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy) External links
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