Maps of California Athabaskan

North America: Na-Dene: Contemporary



Na-Dene in Contemporary North America

Data Sources:  
Golla, Victor, Ives Goddard, Lyle Camplbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2007. North America. In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World's Languages. 43. Oxford: Routledge.
Date Digitized:   June 2010.

Map Description:
The polygons and points represent concentrations of first-language speakers of Na-Dene languages. Polygons represent land or areas primarily occupied by first-language speakers whereas points show communities with varying numbers of speakers.

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.


Other resources related to this project:
This folder (North America: Contemporary) contains other maps showing contemporary linguistic subgroups. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture. In addition, the folder Northern North America: Contemporary contains a map showing the northern distribution of Na-Dene languages.


Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. Color selections used in this map are advised by ColorBrewer.