| Tsetsaut | |
|---|---|
| Tsʼetsaʼut | |
| Wetaŀ,Wetaɬ,Wetał | |
| Pronunciation | [wetaɬ] |
| Native to | Canada,United States |
| Region | NorthernBritish Columbia,Alaska |
| Ethnicity | Tsetsaut |
| Extinct | 1927[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | txc |
txc | |
| Glottolog | tset1236 |
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TheTsetsaut language is an extinctAthabaskan language formerly spoken by the now-extinctTsetsaut in the Behm andPortland Canal area of Southeast Alaska and northwesternBritish Columbia. Virtually everything known of the language comes from the limited material recorded byFranz Boas in 1894 from two Tsetsaut slaves of theNisga'a, which is enough to establish that Tsetsaut formed its own branch of Athabaskan. It is not known precisely when the language became extinct, but it was around the 1930s.[2][3] One speaker was still alive in 1927.[1] TheNisga'a name for the Tsetsaut people is "Jits'aawit".[4]
The Tsetsaut referred to themselves as theWetaŀ. The English nameTsetsaut is an anglicization of[tsʼətsʼaut], "those of the interior", used by theGitxsan andNisga'a to refer to the Athabaskan-speaking people to the north and east of them, including not only the Tsetsaut but someTahltan andSekani.
The examples byMerritt Ruhlen:[5]
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