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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.

Contents

1 Culture

2 Language

2.1 Sounds

2.1.1 Consonants
2.1.2 Vowels

3 Bibliography

Culture

Language

Sounds

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar		Post-Alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
		Bilabial	central	lateral	Post-Alveolar	Palatal	plain	labial	Glottal
Stop	unaspirated		t				k	kʷ
	aspirated	(pʰ)	tʰ				kʰ	kʷʰ
	ejective		t’				k’	k’ʷ	ʔ
Affricate	unaspirated		ʦ	tɬ	ʧ
	aspirated		ʦʰ	tɬʰ	ʧʰ
	ejective		ʦ’	tɬ’	ʧ’
Nasal		m	n
Fricative	voice		z				ɣ
Fricative	voiceless		s	ɬ		ç	x	ʍ	h
Approximant				l		j		w

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Low		a

Bibliography

Hargus, Sharon. (1988). The lexical phonology of Sekani. Outstanding dissertations in linguistics. New York: Garland Publishers. ISBN 0-8240-5187-4.
Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.