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Name:
Lillooet
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
St'at'imcets; sƛʼɛƛʼəmxcín
Spoken in:
Canada
Number of speakers:
200 (2002 W. Poser)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
250
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
200
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
lil
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Salishan (Salish)
Parent Subgroup:
Northern; Northern Interior Salish; Northern Interior Salish Proper (nsal)
Child Dialect Groups:
Lillooet-Fountain; Fountain; Upper Lillooet (lil-fou)
Mount Currie-Doublas; Mount Currie; Lower Lillooet (lil-mou)
Brief Description:
"Lillooet (St'at'imcets) is an Interior Salish language of southwestern British Columbia, and is spoken in two major dialect clusters, Upper Lillooet, in and around Fountain and Lillooet on the Fraser River, and Lower Lillooet, in and around Mount Currie, near Pemberton, on the Lillooet River. The bands associated with these two areas are culturally and politically distinct. There are about 200 speakers divided between the two areas." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 17
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered
Map of Lillooet
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