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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]} The Nisga'a name for the Tsetsaut people is "Jits'aawit"[1]

Tsetsaut
Wetaŀ
Native to	Canada
Region	Northern British Columbia
Ethnicity	Tsetsaut
Extinct	mid 20th century[citation needed]
Language family	Dené–Yeniseian? Na-Dené Athabaskan Northern Athabaskan Tsetsaut
Language codes
ISO 639-3	txc
Linguist List	txc
Glottolog	tset1236
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The Tsetsaut referred to themselves as the Wetaŀ. The English name Tsetsaut is an anglicization of [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.

Examples

The examples by Merritt Ruhlen:[2]

ɬoʔ fish xɔ grizzly bear xadzinε male deer qax rabbit goʔ snake ts’alε frog ts’esdja mosquito

tsrāmaʔ wasp at’ɔ nest εkyagɔ ankle aɬʼɔqʼ liver dlε dance kwuɬʼ dirt na mother

täʼ father isča grandchild axa hair aɬa(ʔ) hand txa kick mmē lake xutsʼedeʼ left

Bibliography

• Boas, Franz, and Pliny Earle Goddard (1924) "Ts'ets'aut, an Athapascan Language from Portland Canal, British Columbia." International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1–35.
• Collison, W. H. (1915) In the Wake of the War Canoe: A Stirring Record of Forty Years' Successful Labour, Peril and Adventure amongst the Savage Indian Tribes of the Pacific Coast, and the Piratical Head-Hunting Haida of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Toronto: Musson Book Company. Reprinted by Sono Nis Press, Victoria, B.C. (ed. by Charles Lillard), 1981.
• Dangeli, Reginald (1999) "Tsetsaut History: The Forgotten Tribe of Southern Southeast Alaska." In: Alaska Native Writers, Storytellers & Orators: The Expanded Edition, ed. by Ronald Spatz, Jeane Breinig, and Patricia H. Partnow, pp. 48–54. Anchorage: University of Alaska.

References

External links

• First Nations Languages of British Columbia page
• OLAC resources in and about the Tsetsaut language

На других языках

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- [en] Tsetsaut language

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[es] Idioma tsetsaut

Tsetsaut es una lengua atabascana septentrional que se extinguió a mediados del siglo XX y que previamente se hablaban en la zona de canal de Portland en el noroeste de la Columbia británica. Prácticamente todo lo que se conoce de la lengua se debe al material recogido por Franz Boas en 1894 de dos esclavos Tsetsaut de los nisga'a, que fue suficiente para poder establecer el parentesco con las lenguas atabascanas. No se conoce exactamente cuando se extinguió la lengua, aunque se conoce que un hablante todavía vivía en 1927.

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[fr] Tsetsaut (langue)

Le tsetsaut est une langue na-dené aujourd'hui éteinte du groupe des langues athapascanes septentrionales. Elle était parlée par le peuple Tsetsaut, dans la région du canal Portland de la Colombie-Britannique, au Canada.

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