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Dogrib

A language of Canada

ISO 639-3: dgr

Population	2,110 (2001 SIL). 12% monolinguals. Ethnic population: 3,220.
Region	Northwest Territories, between Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake. 6 communities: Rae-Edzo, Whati (formerly Lac la Martre), Gameti, Wekweti, Detah and Ndilo (a subcommunity of Yellowknife). Rae is center.
Language map	Canada
Dialects	Detah-Ndilo. Detah-Ndilo dialect developed from intermarriage between Yellowknife Subdivision of the Dëne [chp] and Dogrib. Lexical similarity: 84% with Southern Slavey [xsl], 82% with Northern Slavey [scs].
Classification	Na-Dene, Nuclear Na-Dene, Athapaskan-Eyak, Athapaskan, Canadian, Hare-Chipewyan, Hare-Slavey
Language use	Official in Northwest Territories. Adults prefer to use Dogrib in most contexts. All ages. Also use English.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. Taught in primary schools. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 2005.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV. Hunters; trappers.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

DAVIDSON, William, author. 1963. "A preliminary analysis of active verbs in Dogrib."

DAVIDSON, William; ELFORD, L. W.; HOIJER, Harry, authors. 1963. "Athapaskan classificatory verbs."

FEENSTRA, Jacob, compiler. 1992. Tłįįchǫ yati enįhtł'è (Dogrib dictionary).

KINDBERG, Eric W., author. 2007. "Dictionary turns the tide."  

SAXON, Leslie; SIEMENS, Mary, editors. 1996. Tłįchǫ yatiì enįhtł'è (A Dogrib dictionary).