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Babine-Witsuwitʼen language

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322:. Experts on the languages reject this classification. All agree that the differences between Babine and Witsuwitʼen are small and that the major split is between Babine and Witsuwitʼen on the one hand and Carrier proper on the other hand. The distinction is because speakers of Babine and of Carrier proper call themselves and their language 2736:
Note, however, that the Carrier-speaking region is marked incorrectly on this map and that Babine-Witsuwitʼen is not indicated. The area around Babine Lake and Takla Lake, included in the Dakelh region on the map, is actually Babine speaking. A correct map would attach the Babine Lake and Takla Lake
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Several non-specialist sources (the First Peoples' Heritage Language and Culture Council, the British Columbia Ministry of Education, and the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology) classify Witsuwitʼen as one language and Babine as a distinct language, either on its own or together
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Babine-Witsuwitʼen uses verbal morphology to express grammatical roles. Subjects of transitive and intransitive constructions are marked in the same way and appear in identical positions within the sentence, while objects of transitive constructions may differ in position and occasionally in
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Verbal morpheme order is stable throughout the Athabaskan family; thus, the template of the Witstuwitʼen verb is very similar to other Athabaskan languages. Prefixes which are furthest away from the lexical stem display more variability. The Witsuwitʼen verb consists of a lexical root and an
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are more appropriate descriptors. Each lexical entry of Witsuwitʼen verbs features a lexicalized voice/valence marker fused with the verb stem, though this element sometimes appears as zero. The classifiers and regulate transitivity: increases transitivity by creating causatives and the
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morphological form. Subjects are marked in different places within the verbal complex, with 1st and 2nd person subjects appearing more closely to the verb stem and 3rd person subjects and direct objects further to the left.
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Rice, Keren (2000). Voice and valence in the Athapaskan family. Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity, ed. by R.M.W. Dixon and A.Y. Aikhenvald, 173-234. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Krauss, Michael E. and Victor Golla (1981) Northern Athapaskan Languages. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 6: Subarctic, ed. by June Helm, 67–85. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.
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Tuttle, Siri G. 2002. A Short Introduction to Athabaskan Morphology. Morphology in Comparison, ed. by Elke Nowak, 1–37. Technische Universität Berlin Arbeitspapiere zur Linguistik 37.
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The two dialects are very similar and are distinguished primarily by the fact that in Babine but not in Witsuwitʼen the Athabaskan front velar series have become palatal affricates.
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classifier lowers transitivity to create middle voice. The valence marker is more complex in nature, indicating a combination of and where a middle is built upon a causative.
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is an alienable entity which need not be possessed by anyone/anything, it does not include any possessive morphology but stands alone in its bare form. In contrast,
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aspectual, tense, or modal affix (most often a suffix). All Witsuwitʼen verbs carry tense and subject inflection; there is no Witsuwitʼen equivalent to the English
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1st and 2nd person subjects include 1SG, 2SG, and 2PL. 3rd person subjects can be expressed as unspecified (human), indefinite, or 4th person (referred to as the
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Poser, William J. (2011) The Carrier Language: a brief introduction. Prince George, British Columbia: College of New Caledonia Press. Page 8, footnote 15.
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Athabaskan languages like Babine-Witstuwitʼen make use of two main argument transferring morphemes known as classifiers. However, the term
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Story, Gillian L. (1984) Babine and Carrier Phonology: A Historically Oriented Study. Arlington, Texas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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The basic lexical verb in Witsuwitʼen is the verb theme, a unit composed of two parts: a verbal root and required thematic prefixes.
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Wright, Richard; Hargus, Sharon; Davis, Katharine (2002). "On the categorization of ejectives: data from Witsuwitʼen".
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ms. Alaska Native Language Center, Fairbanks, Alaska, and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
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areas to what is shown on this map as "Wetʼsuwetʼen" and label the combination "Babine-Witsuwitʼen".
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is an inalienable entity; a brother cannot exist without someone else to be in relation to. Thus,
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Krauss, Michael E.; Golla, Victor (1981). "Northern Athapaskan Languages". In Helm, June (ed.).
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Dialectology, Ethnonymy and Prehistory in the Northwest Portion of the 'Carrier' Language Area,
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are heard in the Lake Babine dialect, corresponding to /c, cʰ, cʼ/ in the River Babine dialect.
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Babine-Witsuwitʼen is classified as Northern Athabaskan, in the same linguistic subgrouping as
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Dialectology, Ethnonymy and Prehistory in the Northwest Portion of the 'Carrier' Language Area
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Voice and valence in the Athapaskan family. Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity
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in Babine-Witsuwitʼen is Subject-Object-Verb (SOV), demonstrated in the example below.
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Gunlogson, Christine (2001). "Third-Person Object Prefixes in Babine Witsuwitʼen".
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Complex directional systems and directional terms have been described in
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Witsuwitʼen and Babine both have six underlying vowels in its inventory.
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Like most languages native to British Columbia, Babine–Witsuwitʼen is an
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As its name suggests, Babine–Witsuwitʼen consists of two main dialects:
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Postpositional object marking is demonstrated in the examples below.
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for the language as a whole, not just for the Babine dialect.
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Rice, Keren (2000). Dixon, R.M.W.; Aikhenvald, A.Y. (eds.).
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Babine and Carrier Phonology: A Historically Oriented Study
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Entry on First Nations Languages of British Columbia site
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First Voices: Contains Learning Resources for Witsuwitʼen
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The Status of the Native Languages of British Columbia
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Witsuwit'en Grammar: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology
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Witsuwitʼen Grammar: Phonetics, phonology, morphology
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ms. Alaska Native Language Center, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center. 2439:Consonant Classes and Vowel Qualities in Babine 2321:First People's Language Map of British Columbia 2307:First People's Language Map of British Columbia 1786:requires possessive morphology, as exampled in 2004: 1940: 1936: 1921: 1844: 1834: 1741: 16:Athabaskan language spoken in British Columbia 3220: 2756: 2507:International Journal of American Linguistics 2245:Babine, a New Athabaskan Linguistic Grouping, 1537: 1535: 1533: 2607:Babine, a New Athabaskan Linguistic Grouping 1818:can stand by themselves, as in the example ' 2622: 3227: 3213: 2763: 2749: 2613: 2404: 2402: 2400: 2398: 2396: 2394: 2392: 2390: 1530: 2504: 1745: 1688:Witsuwitʼen nouns are only inflected for 616:labials are rarer than other consonants. 326:but that speakers of Witsuwitʼen do not. 2770: 2469:Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 2310:Nedut'en (Babine): State of the Language 1956: 241:Bulkley Valley – Lakes District Language 3234: 2387: 1664:Witsuwitʼen lexical categories include 3867: 2585: 2559: 2463: 2445: 2408: 2366: 1901:Like most Athabaskan languages, basic 3208: 2744: 2648: 2542: 2540: 2538: 2536: 2500: 2498: 2459: 2457: 2432: 2430: 2377: 2375: 2268:Kari, James and Sharon Hargus (1989) 1822:,' or attach to the verbal complex. 1659: 1067: 624: 2734:Map of Northwest Coast First Nations 2631: 2614:Kari, James; Hargus, Sharon (1989). 2604: 2436: 2255: 2253: 2054: 1868: 239:A term used briefly in the 1990s is 222:Central Interior of British Columbia 3890:Endangered Dené–Yeniseian languages 2724:Family Tree of Athabaskan Languages 1949:Mary 3SG.REFL.brother 3SG.loves.3SG 316:with Carrier proper under the name 13: 2625:Handbook of North American Indians 2533: 2495: 2454: 2427: 2372: 2336:Yinka Déné Language Institute 2007 2324:Witsusit'en: State of the Language 2191: 2028: 14: 3911: 3895:First Nations languages in Canada 2707: 2574:from the original on 18 May 2022. 2250: 1925: 1642: 1626: 1619: 1612: 1598: 1589: 1513: 1506: 1494: 1487: 1480: 1460: 1453: 1446: 1437: 1430: 1423: 1398: 1391: 1383: 1372: 1365: 1358: 1351: 1267: 1257: 1247: 1239: 1228: 1218: 1208: 1198: 1188: 1153: 1146: 1042: 1035: 1025: 1018: 1011: 991: 984: 977: 970: 963: 956: 931: 924: 917: 910: 903: 896: 889: 808: 798: 788: 778: 768: 758: 748: 738: 705: 698: 329: 299: 2586:Hargus, Sharon (November 2011). 2382:Wright, Hargus & Davis (2002 1809: 620:Witsuwitʼen Consonant Inventory 258:"Babine/Nedut'en" spoken by the 2579: 2348: 2339: 608:Witsuwitʼen has 35 consonants. 2327: 2313: 2299: 2275: 2262: 2237: 2212: 603: 1: 3900:Subject–object–verb languages 3885:Northern Athabaskan languages 2184: 1952:'Mary loves her own brother.' 598: 69:in 7 of 9 communities (2014, 3709:Labrador Inuit Pidgin French 2642:10.1017/CBO9780511627750.007 2567:. University of Washington. 2413:. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press. 593: 277:"Witsuwitʼen" spoken by the 7: 3831:Plains Indian Sign Language 2198:Babine-Witsuwitʼen language 2157: 1965:Two object prefixes and : 1063:Babine Consonant Inventory 10: 3916: 3682:Pidgins, creoles and mixed 2649:Story, Gillian L. (1984). 2553: 2025:in Algonquian languages). 1654: 224:. 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Index

Canada
British Columbia
Babine
Wetʼsuwetʼen
FPCC
Language family
Dené–Yeniseian
Na-Dené
Athabaskan
Northern Athabaskan
Babine
Witsuwitʼen
ISO 639-3
bcr
Glottolog
babi1235
ELP
Witsuwit'en
Athabaskan
Central Interior of British Columbia
Carrier
Ethnologue
Babine (Nadot'en)
Babine Lake
Trembleur Lake
Takla Lake
Wet'suwet'en
Bulkley Valley
endangered language
Dakelh

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