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18-761: Fort Providence ( Slave : Zhahti Koe, Zhahti Kue , lit.   'mission house') is a hamlet in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories , Canada. Located west of Great Slave Lake , it has all-weather road connections by way of the Yellowknife Highway (Great Slave Highway) branch off the Mackenzie Highway , and the Deh Cho Bridge opened November 30, 2012, near Fort Providence over

36-461: A change of -11.1% from its 2016 population of 695 . With a land area of 255.49 km (98.65 sq mi), it had a population density of 2.4/km (6.3/sq mi) in 2021. In 2016, the majority of its population, 620, were Indigenous people , made up of 590 First Nations , Dene people, and 30 Métis . The Dene of the community are represented by the Deh Gáh Got'ı̨ę First Nation and

54-539: A separate phoneme. Prenasalized stops /ᵐb, ⁿd/ may appear in Slavey proper. The most pronounced difference is however the realization of a series of consonants that varies greatly in their place of articulation: In Slavey proper, these are dental affricates and fricatives; comparative Athabaskan work reveals this to be the oldest sound value. Mountain has labials, with the voiceless stop coinciding with pre-existing /p/ . Bearlake has labialized velars, but has lenited

72-428: A tap and a flap at the same place of articulation. The sound is often analyzed and thus interpreted by non-native English-speakers as an 'R-sound' in many foreign languages. In languages for which the segment is present but not phonemic, it is often an allophone of either an alveolar stop ( [ t ] , [ d ] , or both) or a rhotic consonant (like the alveolar trill or the alveolar approximant ). If

90-478: A very specific morpheme order in the verb in which the stem must come last. The morpheme order is shown in the following chart. A Slavey verb must minimally have positions 13 and 14 to be proper. Here are some examples: Slavey marks gender by means of prefixation on the verb theme. There are three different genders, one of which is unmarked; the other two are marked by prefixes [go-] and [de-] . However, only certain verb themes allow gender prefixes. [go-]

108-464: Is based largely on the way each one pronounces the old Proto-Athapaskan sounds *dz *ts *ts’ *s and *z. The consonant inventories in the dialects of Slavey differ considerably. The table above lists the 30 consonants common to most or all varieties. Hare lacks aspirated affricates (on red background), which have lenited into fricatives, whereas Mountain lacks /w/ (on blue). In addition, for some speakers of Hare, an alveolar flap /ɾ/ has developed into

126-510: Is marked with an acute accent, and low tone is unmarked. Tones are both lexical and grammatical. Lexical: /ɡáh/ 'along' vs. /ɡàh/ 'rabbit' Slavey morphemes have underlying syllable structures in the stems: CV, CVC, CVnC, V, and VC. The prefixes of the stem occur as Cv, CVC, VC, CV, and C. Slavey alphabet (1973) Tone is indicated with an acute accent and the ogonek indicates nasalization. North Slavey alphabet South Slavey alphabet Slavey, like many Athabascan languages, has

144-681: Is spoken by the Sahtu (North Slavey) people in the Mackenzie District along the middle Mackenzie River from Tulita (Fort Norman) north, around Great Bear Lake , and in the Mackenzie Mountains of the Canadian territory of Northwest Territories . The dialect has around 800 speakers. Northern Slavey is an amalgamation of three separate dialects : South Slavey ( ᑌᓀ ᒐ Dené Dháh , Dene Yatıé or Dene Zhatıé )

162-836: Is spoken by the Slavey people, who were also known as Dehghaot'ine, Deh Cho, Etchareottine - "People Dwelling in the Shelter", in the region of Great Slave Lake , upper Mackenzie River ( Deh Cho - "Big River") and its drainage, in the District of Mackenzie, northeast Alberta , and northwest British Columbia . Some communities are bilingual, with the children learning Slavey at home and English when they enter school. Still other communities are monolingual in Slavey The dialect has around 1,000 speakers. Alternative names: Slavi, Slave, Dené, Mackenzian The division of Slavey dialects

180-492: Is used for nouns which mark location in either time or space. Some examples of these areal nouns are house (ko̜̒e̒), land (de̒h), river (deh), and winder (xay). The gender pronoun can be a direct object, an oblique object or a possessor. kú̜e̒ house go detl’e̒h 3SG .paints.area kú̜e̒ go detl’e̒h house 3SG.paints.area 'S/he is painting the house.' ko̜̒e̒ house go cha area.in   shelter ko̜̒e̒ go cha {} house area.in shelter 'in

198-631: The Mackenzie . The bridge replaced the ice bridge and ferry, enabling year-round crossing of the river. Fort Providence hosts the annual Mackenzie Days celebrations in August each year. Fort Providence was founded in the 1860s as a Catholic mission site. By 1868, the Hudson's Bay Company , which previously has a trading post at Big Island at the source of the MacKenzie River, moved the post to

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216-693: The Métis by Fort Providence Métis Nation. Both groups belong to the Dehcho First Nations . Fort Providence has a continental subarctic climate ( Dfc ) typical of the Northwest Territories' populated areas. It is marked by a long cold winter season and short, warm summers, that in many ways are warmer than expected for an area so far north. Transition seasons are extremely short, with temperatures rising and falling quickly in respective seasons. Slave language North Slavey

234-437: The 'retroflex' symbol being used for the one that starts with the tongue tip curled back behind the alveolar ridge. The distinction is noticeable in the speech of some American English speakers in distinguishing the words "potty" (tap [ɾ] ) and "party" (retroflex [ ɽ ] ). For linguists who do not make the distinction, alveolars and dentals are typically called taps and other articulations flaps . No language contrasts

252-427: The alveolar flap is the only rhotic consonant in the language, it may be transcribed with ⟨ r ⟩ although that symbol technically represents the trill. The voiced alveolar tapped fricative reported from some languages is actually a very brief voiced alveolar non-sibilant fricative . [REDACTED] Features of the voiced alveolar tap or flap: Features of the alveolar nasal tap or flap: Symbols to

270-477: The distinction that a tap strikes its point of contact directly, as a very brief stop, and a flap strikes the point of contact tangentially: "Flaps are most typically made by retracting the tongue tip behind the alveolar ridge and moving it forward so that it strikes the ridge in passing." That distinction between the alveolar tap and flap can be written in the IPA with tap ⟨ ɾ ⟩ and flap ⟨ ɽ ⟩,

288-497: The location of the mission site. From that moment, the settlement was known as Fort Providence. In 1867, the Grey Nuns opened a boarding school and an orphanage in the settlement. Instruction languages were English and French, and most of the nuns originated from Quebec. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Fort Providence had a population of 618 living in 256 of its 292 total private dwellings,

306-594: The shelter of the house' ko̜̒e̒ house go deshįte̒ee area.floor ko̜̒e̒ go deshįte̒ee house area.floor 'floor of the house' Alveolar flap The voiced alveolar tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages . The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents a dental , alveolar , or postalveolar tap or flap is ⟨ ɾ ⟩. The terms tap and flap are often used interchangeably. Peter Ladefoged proposed

324-537: The voiced fricative to coincide with pre-existing /w/ . The most complicated situation is found in Hare, where the plain stop is a labialized velar, the ejective member is replaced by a /ʔw/ sequence, the aspirated affricate has turned into a fricative /f/ , and both the voiceless and voiced fricatives have been lenited to /w/ . The following phonological and phonetic statements apply to all four dialects of Slavey. Slavey has two tones: In Slavey orthography, high tone

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