Gitksan > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Gitksan
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Interior; Nass-Gitksan; Gitksanimx; Gitxsan; Giklsan; Gityskyan; Gyitska'n
Spoken in:
Canada
Number of speakers:
1,330
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
710
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
400
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
git
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Tsimshianic
Parent Subgroup:
Nass-Gitksan (ngit)
Brief Description:
"Nass-Gitksan, the more northerly of the two branches of the Tsimshianic language family of northwestern British Columbia, consists of two emergent languages. (1) Nisga'a (Hisgha) is spoken in four village communities along the Nass River and has between 400 and 500 speakers, with no first-language speakers under 30. (2) Gitksan is spoken in six village communities along the Skeena River upriver from the Coast Tsimshians. It has about the same number of speakers as Nisga'a (400 to 500), but there are a small number of families in which children and young people are fluent speakers." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 19
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable
Map of Gitksan
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