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The Chipewyan language is the language spoken by the Chipewyan people of central Canada (parts of Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan) and is also called Dene. Chipewyan is part of the Athabaskan language family and is related to the Navajo language. This language is spoken by 4,000 out of 6,000 ethnic Chipewyans.

Chipewyan is one of the official languages of the Northwest Territories, the others being English, French, Cree language, Dogrib, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, InuvialuktunInuvialuktun is an indigenous language of Canada, spoken by a portion of the Inuit. It is part of the Inuit branch of the Eskimo group of the Eskimo-Aleut language family, and is closely related to Inuktitut. In fact they are so close that many consider I, and SlaveyThe Slavey language is a spoken language used among the Slavey Native American people of Canada. In older literature, the name of the language was spelt Slave however, the connotations of this, along with the pronunciation of the homograph slave (the fina.

Native American languagesNative American languages are the indigenous languages of the Americas, spoken from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America. The Native American languages consist of dozens of distinct language families as well as many language isolates; Languages of Canada

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