20260923-0 Tagish 2010-01-01 2026-01-23 1950-05-09 TGX 2012-06-27 2011-10-06 Tagish Tagish is an extinct Athabaskan language spoken by the Tagish or Carcross-Tagish, a First Nations people that historically lived in the Northwest Territories and Yukon in Canada. The Tagish people refer to themselves as /ta:gizi dene/, literally "Tagish people", where /ta:gizi/ is a place name meaning ‘it (spring ice) is breaking up’. Several linguists classify Tagish as a dialect of the same language as Kaska and Tahltan. Tagish belongs to the Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit language family. Edward Sapir originally constructed the term Na-Dene to refer to a combined family of Athabaskan, Tlingit, and Haida (the existence of the Eyak language was not known to him at the time). However, Haida is now generally considered a language isolate. tgx tgx TGX false TGX 1950-05-09 TGX