Tutchone is a threatened Athabaskan language

Athabaskan languages

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 spoken in the Yukon

Yukon

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 Territory in Canada

Canada

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. It has two varieties

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 that are sometimes considered separate languages, Southern Tutchone and Northern Tutchone.

Southern Tutchone is spoken in the Yukon communities of Aishihik

Aishihik, Yukon

Aishihik is a mostly uninhabited former Indian settlement at the north end of Aishihik Lake in Canada's Yukon. Until 1968, it was the location of a military airfield established during World War II as part of the Northwest Staging Route. The withdrawal of military service led to the community's...

, Burwash Landing

Burwash Landing, Yukon

-Tourism:Burwash Landing has a post office, community hall, laundromat and church. Visitor services include gas, food, camping and lodging. Walking trail along the Alaska Highway between Duke Trading Post and Dalan Campground. Flightseeing trips of Kluane National Park and Reserve are also...

, Champagne

Champagne, Yukon

Champagne Landing is a small Indian settlement on the Alaska Highway in Canada's Yukon. The few residents are citizens of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations. The resident population was 24 in the Canada 2006 Census.Champagne is on the Dezadeash River, one of the tributaries of the Alsek...

, Haines Junction

Haines Junction, Yukon

Haines Junction is a village in the Yukon, Canada. It is located at Kilometre 1,632 of the Alaska Highway at its junction with the Haines Highway, hence the name of the community. According to the 2006 Census the population was 589. It is next to Kluane National Park and Reserve...

, Kloo Lake, Klukshu, Lake Laberge

Lake Laberge

Lake Laberge is a widening of the Yukon River north of Whitehorse, Yukon in Canada. It is fifty kilometres long and ranges from two to five kilometres wide. Its water is always very cold, and its weather often harsh and suddenly variable....

, and Whitehorse

Whitehorse, Yukon

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Northern Tutchone is spoken in the Yukon communities of Mayo

Mayo, Yukon

Mayo is a village in the Yukon, Canada, along the Silver Trail and the Stewart River. The population was 248 in 2006. It is also the home of the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun, whose primary language is Northern Tutchone. Nacho Nyak Dun translates into "big river people". It is serviced by Mayo...

, Pelly Crossing

Pelly Crossing, Yukon

Pelly Crossing is community in the Yukon, Canada. It lies where the Klondike Highway crosses the Pelly River. Population in 2008 was 291.It is the home of the Selkirk First Nation, and home to the Northern Tutchone culture. Cultural displays and artifacts are housed in a replica of Big Jonathan House...

, Stewart Crossing

Stewart Crossing, Yukon

Stewart Crossing is a settlement in the Yukon territory of Canada, located on the Klondike Highway at the junction with the Silver Trail. A Yukon government highway maintenance camp and a highway lodge are the most prominent facilities at the location, named for where the Klondike Highway or Mayo...

, Carmacks

Carmacks, Yukon

-History:The community consists of the Village of Carmacks and the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation and was named after George Washington Carmack, who found coal near Tantalus Butte in 1893. Carmack built a trading post and traded with locals near the present site of Carmacks and also started a...

, and Beaver Creek

Beaver Creek, Yukon

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Dialects

Southern

• Aisihilik dialect
• Tàaʼan dialect
• Klukshu dialect
• Kluane dialect

Northern

• Big Salmon dialect
• Pelly Crossing dialect
• Mayo dialect
• White River dialect

External links

• Yukon Native Language Center : Northern Tutchone
• Yukon Native Language Center : Southern Tutchone
• First Voices: Southern Tutchone