Tanacross (also Transitional Tanana) is an
endangered
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Athabaskan language
Athabaskan (also spelled ''Athabascan'', ''Athapaskan'' or ''Athapascan'', and also known as Dene) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three areal language groups: Northern, Pacific C ...
spoken by fewer than 60 people in eastern
Interior Alaska.
Overview
The word Tanacross (from "
Tanana Crossing") has been used to refer both to a village in eastern Alaska and to an
ethnolinguistic
Ethnolinguistics (sometimes called cultural linguistics) is an area of anthropological linguistics that studies the relationship between a language and the nonlinguistic cultural behavior of the people who speak that language.
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group. The modern village of
Tanacross is accessible by a short access road from the