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Name:
Coeur d'Alene
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Snchitsu'umshtsn; Coeur D'Alene; Skitswish; snčícuʔumšcn
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
5 (1999 R. McDonald). Ethnic population: 800 (1977 SIL)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
4
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
5
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
crd
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Salishan (Salish)
Parent Subgroup:
Southern; Southern Interior Salish (sins)
Brief Description:
"Coeur d'Alene is a moribund Interior Salish language spoken on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation in northern Idaho. There are only four surviving first-language speakers, ranging in age from the mid-70s to 101 (the oldest member of the tribe)." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 13
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Coeur d'Alene
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