About 3,200 miles and four intervening language families separate today's speakers of Ket from those who still speak what researchers know as Na-Dene (Tlingit, Eyak and Athabaskan).

Ket is the sole survivor of an earlier language family called "Yeniseian." The two language groups are separated by thousands of miles of land and an ocean, yet have similarities that indicate ...

FAIRBANKS - Spoken by only a few dozen people, a language uttered in river villages 3,000 miles from Alaska is related to Tlingit, Eyak and Athabascan. This curious link has ...