Ahtna language

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Ahtna
Spoken in:	United States
Region:	Alaska (Copper River region)
Total speakers:	80
Language family:	Na-Dené Athabaskan-Eyak Athabaskan Northern Ahtna
Writing system:	Latin (Ahtna variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`ath`
ISO 639-3:	`aht`
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

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Pre-contact distribution of Ahtna

Ahtna or Ahtena is the Na-Dené language of the Ahtna ethnic group of the Copper River area of Alaska. The language is also known as Copper River or Mednovskiy. There are 80 speakers out of a population of 500, and the language is facing extinction but many younger people are learning it to try to keep it from extinction.

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