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'Sikanni' is the name of an Athabaskan First Nations people and language in the northern interior of British Columbia. Their territory includes the Finlay and Parsnip River drainages of the Rocky Mountain Trench. The neighbors of the Sekani are the Babine, Dakelh, Dunneza (Beaver), Slavey, Kaska, and Tahltan, all Athabaskan peoples, to the north and west. To the south their neighbours are the Kinbasket and Secwepemc (Shuswap) peoples, who are Plains and Interior Salish peoples, respectively. In the past few centuries they have also had extensive contact with the Plains Cree, and were formerly in the upper North Thompson valley, until driven out by the grandfather of the famous Chief Nicola.
Sekani has 33 consonants:
★
★ Sekani, like other Athabaskan languages, does not contrast fricatives with approximants.
Sekani people call themselves [tsek'ene] or [tθek'ene] depending on dialect, both
meaning "people on the rocks". "Sekani" is an anglicization of this term. Other forms occasionally found, especially in older sources, are ''Secunnie'', ''Siccanie'', ''Sikani'', and the French ''Sékanais''.
SEK
★ Sekani entry on First Nations Languages of British Columbia site
★ Bibliography of Sekani Linguistics
★ Map of Northwest Coast First Nations (including Sekani)
★ Ethnologue entry
★ Hargus, Sharon. (1988). ''The lexical phonology of Sekani''. (Outstanding dissertations in linguistics). New York: Garland Publishers. ISBN 0-8240-5187-4
★ Mithun, Marianne. (1999). ''The languages of Native North America''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
★ Lanoue, Guy. (1992). ''Brothers: the politics of violence among the Sekani of Northern British Columbia''. Oxford & New York: Berg Publishers. ISBN 0-85496-746-X
| Contents |
| Culture |
| Language |
| Sounds |
| Consonants |
| Vowels |
| Synonymy |
| Ethnologue/ISO/DIS 639-3 Code |
| External links |
| Bibliography |
Culture
Language
Sounds
Consonants
Sekani has 33 consonants:
| 'Bilabial' | 'Alveolar' | 'Post- Alveolar' | 'Velar' | 'Glottal' | ||||
| central | lateral | plain | labial | |||||
| 'Stop' | unaspirated | |||||||
| aspirated | ||||||||
| ejective | ||||||||
| 'Affricate' | unaspirated | |||||||
| aspirated | ||||||||
| ejective | ||||||||
| 'Nasal' | ||||||||
| 'Fricative- Approximant ★ ' | voiceless | |||||||
| voiced | ||||||||
★
★ Sekani, like other Athabaskan languages, does not contrast fricatives with approximants.
Vowels
| 'Front' | 'Central' | 'Back' | |
| 'High' | |||
| 'Mid' | |||
| 'Low' |
Synonymy
Sekani people call themselves [tsek'ene] or [tθek'ene] depending on dialect, both
meaning "people on the rocks". "Sekani" is an anglicization of this term. Other forms occasionally found, especially in older sources, are ''Secunnie'', ''Siccanie'', ''Sikani'', and the French ''Sékanais''.
Ethnologue/ISO/DIS 639-3 Code
SEK
External links
★ Sekani entry on First Nations Languages of British Columbia site
★ Bibliography of Sekani Linguistics
★ Map of Northwest Coast First Nations (including Sekani)
★ Ethnologue entry
Bibliography
★ Hargus, Sharon. (1988). ''The lexical phonology of Sekani''. (Outstanding dissertations in linguistics). New York: Garland Publishers. ISBN 0-8240-5187-4
★ Mithun, Marianne. (1999). ''The languages of Native North America''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
★ Lanoue, Guy. (1992). ''Brothers: the politics of violence among the Sekani of Northern British Columbia''. Oxford & New York: Berg Publishers. ISBN 0-85496-746-X
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