Moses Columbia of Moses Columbia (col) > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Moses Columbia
Type:
Dialect
Alternate Names:
Columbia-Wenatchi; Wenatchi-Columbia; Columbian; Columbia; Moses Columbian; Nxaʔamxcín; Moses-Columbian; Middle Columbia Cluster; nxaʔamxcín
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
75 (1990 M. Kinkade). 39 Columbia speakers(1990 census). Ethnic population: 500 possibly (1977 SIL)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
25
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
75
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
col
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Salishan (Salish)
Parent Dialect:
Moses Columbia; Columbia-Wenatchi; Wenatchi-Columbia; Columbian; Columbia; Moses Columbian; Nxaʔamxcín; Moses-Columbian; Middle Columbia Cluster; nxaʔamxcín (col)
Brief Description:
"Columbian is an Interior Salish language, originally spoken in a number of local dialects along the Columbia River in north-central Washington. Most of the approximately 25 remaining first-language speakers refer to their dialect as Nxa7amxcin and live on or near the Colville Reservation. All are elderly, ranging in age from late 60s to mid-80s with most well over 70. A few other speakers elsewhere may represent other dialects." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 13
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered
Map of Moses Columbia
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