Editing Eyak language (section)

==Language family==
{{main|Na-Dene languages}}
Eyak is a part of the Eyak-Athabaskan language family and [[Na-Dene languages|Na-Dené]] larger grouping, which includes Eyak-Athabaskan and [[Tlingit language|Tlingit]] with a controversial but possible inclusion of [[Haida language|Haida]]. The [[Athabaskan languages|Athabaskan family]] covers three distinct geographic areas, forming three subgroups: [[Northern Athabaskan languages|Northern Athabaskan]] in Alaska and the Yukon; [[Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages|Pacific Coast Athabaskan]] in California and Oregon; and [[Southern Athabaskan languages|Southern Athabaskan]], also called Apache, spoken mainly in the American Southwest, which includes [[Navajo language|Navajo]]. There has been extensive comparative reconstruction of a Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak (PAE). A recent proposal of a [[Dené–Yeniseian languages|Dené–Yeniseian]] stock has been widely well received by linguists, linking the Dené languages to the [[Yeniseian languages]] of central Siberia. If it proves correct, it will be the first validated genetic link between Old and New World languages. Far less accepted is a possible [[Dené–Caucasian languages|Dené–Caucasian]] stock that has been pursued for decades.