Langenesis

Na-Dene family

Proto-Athabaskan

c. 500 BCE – 500 CE Reconstructed

Proto-Athabaskan (c. 500 BCE – 500 CE) is a reconstructed Na-Dene language. It has 4 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Na-Dene → Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak → Proto-Athabaskan.

See Proto-Athabaskan on the interactive map

Ancestor of the Athabaskan languages, probably spoken in interior Alaska or Yukon. Its daughters spread into northern Canada, the Pacific coast and the American Southwest.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Na-Denec. 3,000 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Athabaskan-Eyakc. 1,500 BCE – 500 BCE
  3. Proto-Athabaskanc. 500 BCE – 500 CE

Descendants 2

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak.

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