Gitxsan language
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| Gitxsan Gitxsanimaax |
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| Spoken in: | Canada | |
| Region: | Skeena region, British Columbia | |
| Total speakers: | 1,000 | |
| Language family: | Tsimshian Gitxsan |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | tsi | |
| ISO 639-3: | git | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Gitxsan (or Gitxsanimaax) is a First Nations language of northwestern British Columbia. It is a Tsimshianic language, closely related to the neighboring Nisga'a language. The two groups are, however, politically separate and prefer to refer to Gitxsan and Nisga'a as distinct languages. Gitxsanimaax is an endangered language, currently estimated to have no more than 1,000 speakers, of whom the great majority are elders. Few if any children grow up speaking it at home.
[edit] Bibliography
- Halpin, Marjorie, and Margaret Seguin (1990) "Tsimshian Peoples: Southern Tsimshian, Coast Tsimshian, Nishga, and Gitksan." In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 7: Northwest Coast, ed. by Wayne Suttles, pp. 267-284. Washington: Smithsonian Institution).
- Hindle, Lonnie and Bruce Rigsby (1973) A short practical dictionary of the Gitksan language, Northwest Anthropological Research Notes 1:1-60.
- Rigsby, Bruce (1986) Gitksan Grammar. Unpublished manuscript, University of Queensland, Australia.
