Dene_Suline_language

Dene Suline ᑌᓀᓱᒼᕄᓀ Dëne Sųłiné
Spoken in:	Canada
Region:	Northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba; southern Northwest Territories and Nunavut

Total speakers:	11,895 ¹
Language family:	Dené-Yeniseian Na-Dené Athabaskan-Eyak Athabaskan Northern Athabaskan Dene Suline
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`chp`
ISO 639-3:	`chp`
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

	Bilabial	Inter- dental	Dental	Post- alveolar	Velar/Uvular	Glottal
central	lateral	plain	labial
Nasal	m m		n n
Plosive	plain	b p		d t			g k	gw kʷ
aspirated			t tʰ			k kʰ	kw kʷʰ
ejective			tʼ tʼ			kʼ kʼ	kwʼ kʼʷ	ɂ ʔ
Affricate	plain		ddh tθ	dz ts	dl tɬ	j tʃ
aspirated		tth tθʰ	ts tsʰ	tł tɬʰ	ch tʃʰ
ejective		tthʼ tθʼ	tsʼ tsʼ	tłʼ tɬʼ	chʼ tʃʼ
Fricative	voiceless		th θ	s s	ł ɬ	sh ʃ	hh χ	hhw χʷ	h h
voiced		dh ð	z z	l ɮ	zh ʒ	gh ʁ	ghw ʁʷ
Trill			r r

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