athTechnical information about ISO 639 language code ath
The table below provides technical details for the Athapascan languages language, designated by the ath code from the ISO 639-2 standard.
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| Standard | |
| Name | Athapascan languages |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Northern AthabaskanPacific Coast AthabaskanSouthern Athabaskan |
| Related languages | TlingitEyakHaida |
| Key facts | Verb morphology is highly complex, with more than twenty ordered prefix slots around the verb stemMany Athabaskan languages are tonal, distinguishing pitch at the word levelThe family occupies a range from Alaska and western Canada to the U.S. Southwest, the widest spread of any North American indigenous language familyPractical orthographies using the Latin script were largely devised during the 20th century by missionaries and linguistsComparative work reconstructs a Proto-Athabaskan language thought to have been spoken in the subarctic several millennia ago |
| Sample phrase | Yáʼátʼééh, haʼíí baa naniná? |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
The Athapascan languages language, identified by the code ath, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic' by its type.
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