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Navajos and the many Apache groups speak languages in the Athabascan family in the American Southwest.
Northern Athabascan languages are spoken by tribes in Alaska, Canada. There are also Athabascan languages spoken in Washington, Oregon and Northern California.
Here is a list of those languages by state or provence or territory.
- Alaska: Ahtna, Deg Hit'an, Dena'ina/Tanaina, Gwich'in/Kutchin, Hän, Holikachuk, Koyukon, Lower Tanana, Middle Tanana, Tanacross, Upper Tanana, Upper Kuskokwim
- Yukon Territory: Gwich'in/Kutchin, Hän, Kaska, Mountain, Tagish, Northern Tutchone, Southern Tutchone, Upper Tanana
- Northwest Territories: Bearlake, Dëne Sųłiné/Chipewyan, Gwich'in, Hare, Mountain, Slavey, Tłįchǫ Yatʼìi/Dogrib
- Nunavut: Dëne Sųłiné
- British Columbia: Babine-Witsuwit'en, Bearlake, Beaver, Chilcotin, Dakelh/Carrier, Hare, Kaska, Mountain, Nicola, Sekani/Tsek'ene, Slavey, Tagish, Tahltan, Tsetsaut
- Alberta: Beaver, Dëne Sųłiné, Slavey, Tsuut'ina/Sarcee
- Saskatchewan: Dëne Sųłiné
- Washington: Chilcotin, Kwalhioqua-Clatskanai (Willapa, Suwal), Nicola
- Oregon: Applegate, Clatskanie, Galice, Rogue River (Chasta Costa, Euchre Creek, Tututni, Upper Coquille), Tolowa, Upper Umpqua
- Northern California: Eel River, Hupa, Mattole-Bear River, Tolowa
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