North America · ISO 639-3 chp · Glottocode chip1261
Chipewyan
Chipewyan's reference point lies in North America; Glottolog gives the status shifting, while CLDR suggests Latin.
- Language family
- Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- shifting
- Macroarea
- North America
- Source country codes
- CA
- Reference point
- 58.980, -104.440
Open research question
How is Chipewyan named and used by different generations, and which forms of transmission do participants themselves consider important?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.