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Name: Dene Type: Subgroup Alternate Name: Hare-Chipewyan Code: harc Code Standard: LINGUIST List Documentation: Private Use Families: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian) Parent Subgroup: Athabaskan; Athapaskan; Athabascan Family; Athapascan; Athabascan (atha) Child Languages: Mountain Slavey; Mountain (scs-mou) Dogrib; Thlingchadine; The Detah-Ndilo dialect developed from intermarriage between the Yellowknife subdivision of the Chipewyan and the Dogrib. Lexical similarity 84% with Southern Slavey; 82% with Northern Slavey. (dgr) Hare; North Slavey (scs-har) Chipewyan; Montagnais; Dene Suline; Sluacus-tinneh; Dene Soun'line; Dene (chp) Slave; Slavey; South Slavey; Slavey, South; Slavi; "Slave"; Dené; Mackenzian (xsl) Bearlake; Bearlake Slavey; Bear Lake; North Slavey (scs-bea) Brief Description: "Dene, in older Canadian usage synonymous with 'Athabaskan', is now used as the name of a complex of Athabaskan dialects and emergent languages in the Mackenzie River drainage of northwestern Canada, primarily in the Northwest Territories but also extending into parts of northern British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Three major Dene languages are distinguished, Slavey, Dogrib, and Chipewyan. Slavey can be further divided into Bearlake and Hare (together constituting North Slavey), Mountain, and Slave or South Slavey. There is a moderate degree of mutual intelligibility across the Dene complex, but this extends as well to some adjacent Athabaskan languages (particularly Beaver, Sekani, and Kaska) that are not usually called Dene. The group is defined as much on a social and political basis (the Athabaskan languages of the Northwest Territories) as on a linguistic basis." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 14