4-794: The Toklat River ( Lower Tanana : Tootl'o Huno ' ) is an 85-mile (137 km) tributary of the Kantishna River in central Alaska in the United States It drains an area on the north slope of the Alaska Range on the south edge of the Tanana Valley southwest of Fairbanks . It issues from unnamed glaciers in the northern Alaska Range in Denali National Park and Preserve , northeast of Denali . It flows generally northwest through hilly country to
8-690: A territory between the Salcha and the Goodpaster rivers spoke a distinct dialect that linguists term the Middle Tanana language . Vowel sounds in Tanana are /a æ ɪ~i ʊ~u ə/ . In a 2008–2009 project, linguist Siri Tuttle of the University of Alaska 's Native Language Center “worked with elders to translate and document song lyrics, some on file at the language center and some recorded during
12-597: The tundra to the north of the Alaska Range. The river was described as the Toclat by Lt. H.T. Allen in 1885. Other names or variants include Tootl'ot Huno , Tootl'ot Huno' Hutl'ot , Tootl'ot No' and Tutlut River . Depth of 50 ft, width of 25 ft Lower Tanana language Lower Tanana (also Tanana and/or Middle Tanana ) is an endangered language spoken in Interior Alaska in
16-409: The lower Tanana River villages of Minto and Nenana . Of about 380 Tanana people in the two villages, about 30 still speak the language. As of 2010, “Speakers who grew up with Lower Tanana as their first language can be found only in the 250-person village of Minto.” It is one of the large family of Athabaskan languages , also known as Dené . The Athabaskan (or Dené) bands who formerly occupied
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