Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit · ISO 639-3 chp
Chipewyan Language
Chipewyan is an Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit language spoken by about 13,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin and UCAS scripts.
Where Chipewyan is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Chipewyan language
Chipewyan is spoken by about 13,000 people, which makes it the 543rd most spoken language in the world — just behind Palauan (17,000) and ahead of Tuvalu (13,000). It belongs to the Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit language family and, more precisely, to the Northwestern Canada Athabaskan group within the Athabaskan branch.
Where is Chipewyan spoken?
Chipewyan is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Canada (12,414).
Chipewyan is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Canada.
Writing system and status
Chipewyan is written in the Latin and UCAS scripts. Glottolog classifies it as vulnerable, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Tlicho, Slavey and Gwichʼin.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 chp.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.