Tagish language
| Tagish | |
|---|---|
| Dene K'e | |
| Tā̀gish | |
| Native to | Canada |
| Region | Northwest Territories, Yukon |
| Ethnicity | Tagish people |
| Extinct | 2008, with the death of Lucy Wren |
Dené–Yeniseian?
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| Latin script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tgx |
| Glottolog | tagi1240 |
| ELP | Tagish |
Tagish is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Tagish is an extinct language spoken by the Tagish or Carcross-Tagish, a First Nations people that historically lived in the Northwest Territories and Yukon in Canada. The name Tagish derives from /ta:gizi dene/, or "Tagish people", which is how they refer to themselves, where /ta:gizi/ is a place name meaning "it (spring ice) is breaking up.
The language is a Northern Athabaskan language, closely related to Tahltan and Kaska. The three languages are often grouped together as Tahltan-Kaska-Tagish; the three languages are considered dialects of the same language by some. As of 2004, there was only 1 native fluent speaker of Tagish documented: Lucy Wren (Agaymā/Ghùch Tlâ). She died in 2008.