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Name: Comox Type: Language Alternate Names: Comox-Sliammon; Çatlotq; Mainland Comox; Comox Cluster; Comux Spoken in: Canada Number of speakers: 400. Ethnic population: 850 (1983) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 30 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 400 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: coo Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Salishan (Salish) Parent Subgroup: Central Salish; Coast Salish (csal) Child Dialects: Homalco-Klahoose-Sliammon (coo-sil) Homalco-Klahoose-Sliammon; Klahoose (coo-kla) Homalco-Klahoose-Sliammon; Homalco (coo-hom) Comox; Island Comox; Island; Qʼómoxʷs (coo-isl) Sliammon; Llaamen; Mainland; ʔayʔaǰúɵəm (coo-sli) Brief Description: "Comox is a Central Salish language, spoken at the northern end of the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia, both on the mainland and on the east coast of Vancouver Island. Island Comox and Mainland Comox dialects are recognised, the latter divided into three varieties associated respectively with the Homalco, Klahoose, and Sliammon Bands. The last fluent speaker of Island Comox died in the mid-1990s. Although in the early 1980s Mainland Comox was reported to be spoken fluently by about one-third of the population, in 2000 it was estimated that there were 60 or fewer active first-language speakers, most of them 55 or older, in a total population of 1,500." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 13

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable