Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit · ISO 639-3 gwi
Gwichʼin Language
Gwichʼin is an Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit language spoken by about 670 people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Gwichʼin is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Gwichʼin language
Gwichʼin is spoken by about 670 people, which makes it the 554th most spoken language in the world — just behind Manx (1,823) and ahead of Skolt Sami (610). It belongs to the Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit language family and, more precisely, to the Gwichin-Han group within the Athabaskan branch.
Where is Gwichʼin spoken?
Gwichʼin is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Canada (310).
Gwichʼin is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Canada.
Writing system and status
Gwichʼin is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as moribund, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Chipewyan, Slavey and Tlicho.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 gwi.
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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.