Haida · language isolate

Haida

1500 CE – today Living

Haida (1500 CE – today) is a living language isolate.

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ISO 639-3
hai
Glottocode
haid1248

Spoken on Haida Gwaii and in southeast Alaska; critically endangered. Sapir grouped it with Na-Dene, but today it is generally treated as an isolate. The start date marks the contact era.

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