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By Ed Hitchins, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Energeticcity.ca FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. \u2014 The Beaver language of the Dane-zaa people was one of nine different language families analyzed by a new report. The Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages in collaboration with Statistics Canada released the data on Monday, March 31st: National Indigenous Languages Day. According to the Treaty 8 Tribal Association\u2019s website, Dane-zaa or the Beaver language \u2013 part of the Athabaskan family \u2013 is the dialect spoken among several bands in northeast B.C. These include Doig River First Nation, Prophet River First Nation and Halfway River First Nation. The report suggests the province has a \u201cdiverse group\u201d of Athabaskan speakers with roughly three quarters of respondents surveyed \u2013 75.9 per cent \u2013 living in B.C. able to… <\/p>\n

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By Ed Hitchins, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Energeticcity.ca FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. \u2014 The Beaver language of the Dane-zaa people was one of nine different language families analyzed by a new report. The Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages in collaboration with Statistics Canada released the data on Monday, March 31st: National Indigenous Languages Day. According to the Treaty 8 Tribal Association\u2019s website, Dane-zaa or the Beaver language \u2013 part of the Athabaskan family \u2013 is the dialect spoken among several bands in northeast B.C. These include Doig River First Nation, Prophet River First Nation and Halfway River First Nation. The report suggests the province has a \u201cdiverse group\u201d of Athabaskan speakers with roughly three quarters of respondents surveyed \u2013 75.9 per cent \u2013 living in B.C. able to... <\/p>\n

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