public_comment: "scs is for Slavey. Ethnologue has Bearlake as a dialect of Slavey.",
private_comment: null,
source_id:89800,
speakers: [
{
id:2320,
code_id:1675,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "580",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "1065",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id:414,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:12628,
code_id:1675,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "580",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "1,065",
date_of_info: "2008?",
public_comment: "Bearlake is an emergent Athabaskan language within the North Slavey group of Slavey dialects of the Dene complex. It is spoken as a first language by about 580 people (450 of whom use it actively at home) in two communities in the Northwest Territories, Déline, formerly Fort Franklin (460 speakers out of a total population of 615), and Tulita, formerly Fort Norman (up to 120 speakers out of 450 total). At Déline, Bearlake is the lingua franca of a dialectally mixed community and many speakers are also fluent in Dogrib. At Tulita, an unknown number of the speakers of Bearlake are also fluent (or primarily fluent) in Mountain.",