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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, L. W. Elford, and Harry Hoijer. 1963. "Athapaskan classificatory verbs."

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

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

Kindberg, Eric. 2007. "Dictionary turns the tide."  

Saxon, Leslie and Mary Siemens, editors. 1996. Tłįchǫ yatiì enįhtł'è (A Dogrib dictionary).