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Koyukon (also called ''Denaakk'e'') is the geographically most widespread Athabascan language spoken in Alaska.〔University of Fairbanks, Alaska Native Language Center, http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/languages/ka/〕 The Athabaskan language is spoken along the Koyukuk and the middle Yukon River in western interior Alaska. In 2007, the language had approximately 300 speakers, who were generally older adults bilingual in English. The total Koyukon ethnic population was 2,300.〔Krauss, Michael E. 2007. "Native languages of Alaska", In: ''The Vanishing Voices of the Pacific Rim,'' ed. by Osahito Miyaoko, Osamu Sakiyama, and Michael E. Krauss. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Table 21.1, page 408)〕 ==History== Jules Jetté, a French Canadian Jesuit missionary, began recording the language and culture of the Koyukon people in 1898. Considered a fluent Koyukon speaker after spending years in the region, Jetté died in 1927. He had made a significant quantity of notes on the Koyukon people, their culture and beliefs, and their language. Eliza Jones, a Koyukon, came across these manuscripts while studying, and later working, at the University of Alaska in the early 1970s. Working from Jetté's notes and in consultation with Koyukon tribal elders, Jones wrote the ''Koyukon Athabaskan Dictionary.'' It was edited by James Kari and published in 2000 by the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The ''Koyukon Athabaskan Dictionary'' is unusually comprehensive in terms of documentation of an American indigenous language, in part because Jetté's notes were of excellent quality and depth. In addition, he wrote about the language and culture nearly a century ago, when the language was far more widely spoken in daily life and the Koyukon people were living in a more traditional way. The use of the word, "Dictionary", in the title is perhaps misleading; the book is more similar to an encyclopedia, as it also is a record of the culture and traditions of the Koyukon people. The book includes traditional stories recorded by Catherine Attla and published in 1983 by the University of Alaska Fairbanks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Koyukon language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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