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Koyukon (also called Denaakk’e) is an Athabaskan language spoken along the Koyukuk and middle Yukon River in western interior Alaska. In 2007 the language had approximately 150 speakers who were generally older adults bilingual in English. Their total ethnic population was 2300.Jules Jetté a French Canadian Jesuit missionary began recording the language and culture of the Koyukon people in 1898. Considered a fluent Koyukon speaker after spending years in the region Jette died in 1927.