Na-Dene family

Tlingit

1500 CE – today Living

Tlingit (1500 CE – today) is a living Na-Dene language. Lineage: Proto-Na-Dene → Tlingit.

See Tlingit on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
tli
Glottocode
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Spoken in southeast Alaska and adjacent Canada. The most distant member of Na- Dene; severely endangered.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Na-Denec. 3,000 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  2. Tlingit1500 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Na-Dene.

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