Na-Dene
Na-Dené or Na-Dene is a Native American language family which includes the Athabascan languages, Eyak, and Tlingit. Tlingit language: 700 speakers (M. Krauss, 1995)
- Athapaskan-Eyak languages
- Eyak language: 1 speaker, (N. Barnes, 1996)
- Athapaskan languages
- Athapaskan languages proper
- Athapaskan-Californian languages
- Navajo is the most widely spoken language of the Na-Dené family, spoken in Arizona, New Mexico, and other regions of the American Southwest. Dene or Dine is a widely distributed group of Native languages and peoples spoken in Canada, Alaska, and parts of Oregon and northern California. Eyak is spoken in the Alaskan panhandle and today there is only one speaker left.
According to Joseph H. Greenberg's highly controversial classification of the languages of Native North America, Na-Dené-Athabascan is one of the three main groups of Native languages spoken in the Americas, and represents a distinct wave of migration from Asia to the Americas. The other two are Eskimo-Aleut, spoken in Alaska and the Canadian Arctic; and Amerind, Greenberg's most controversial classification, which includes every language native to the Americas that is not Eskimo-Aleut or Na-Dené.
