Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Athabaskan or Athabascan (also Dene, Athapascan, Athapaskan) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three groups of contiguous languages: Northern, Pacific Coast and Southern (or Apachean). Kari and Potter 2010:10 place the total territory of the 53 Athabaskan languages at 1,563,000 mi2 or 4,022,000 km2. Chipewyan is spoken over the largest area of any North American native language.Although the term Athabascan is prevalent in linguistics and anthropology, there is an increasing trend among scholars to use the terms Dene and Dene languages, which is how speakers identify it, and to apply these terms to the entire language family. For example, following a motion by attendees in 2012, the annual Athabaskan Languages Conference changed its name to the Dene Languages Conference."@en }
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- Athabaskan_languages abstract "Athabaskan or Athabascan (also Dene, Athapascan, Athapaskan) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three groups of contiguous languages: Northern, Pacific Coast and Southern (or Apachean). Kari and Potter 2010:10 place the total territory of the 53 Athabaskan languages at 1,563,000 mi2 or 4,022,000 km2. Chipewyan is spoken over the largest area of any North American native language.Although the term Athabascan is prevalent in linguistics and anthropology, there is an increasing trend among scholars to use the terms Dene and Dene languages, which is how speakers identify it, and to apply these terms to the entire language family. For example, following a motion by attendees in 2012, the annual Athabaskan Languages Conference changed its name to the Dene Languages Conference.".