Sekani

Sekani is the name of an Athabaskan people and language in northern central interior of British Columbia. Their territory includes Finlay and Parsnip River draingages of the Rocky Mountain Trench. The Sekani are surrounded by the following Athabaskan peoples: Babine, Carrier, Beaver, Slavey, Kaska, and Tahltan.

Culture

Language

Sounds

Consonants

colspan="2" rowspan="2" |   align="center" | Bilabial align="center" colspan="2" | Alveolar align="center" | Palatal align="center" colspan="2" | Velar align="center" | Glottal
  align="center" | central align="center" | lateral   align="center" | plain align="center" | labial  
rowspan="3" | Stop unaspirated align="center" | align="center" |     align="center" | align="center" | align="center" |
aspirated align="center" | align="center" |     align="center" | align="center" |  
ejective   align="center" |     align="center" | align="center" |  
rowspan="3" | Affricate unaspirated   align="center" | align="center" | align="center" |      
aspirated   align="center" | align="center" | align="center" |      
ejective   align="center" | align="center" | align="center" |      
Nasal   align="center" | align="center" |          
rowspan="2" | Fricative voiceless   align="center" | align="center" | align="center" | align="center" | align="center" | align="center" |
voice   align="center" |     align="center" |    
Appoximant       align="center" | align="center" |   align="center" |  

Vowels

  ALIGN="center" | Front ALIGN="center" | Central ALIGN="center" | Back
High ALIGN="center" |   ALIGN="center" |
Mid ALIGN="center" | ALIGN="center" | ALIGN="center" |
Low   ALIGN="center" |  

Bibliography

  • Hargus, Sharon. (1988). The lexical phonology of Sekani. Outstanding dissertations in linguistics. New York: Garland Publishers. ISBN 0-8240-5187-4.

 

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