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Name: Colville-Okanagan Type: Language Alternate Names: Okanagan; Okanagan-Colville; Okanagon; Okanogan; Nsilxcín; Okanagon Cluster; Okinagan; nsilxcín Spoken in: USA, Canada Number of speakers: 400 in Canada (1977 SIL). Population total all countries: 510 (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 130 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 512 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: oka Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Salishan (Salish) Parent Subgroup: Southern; Southern Interior Salish (sins) Child Dialect Groups: Northern; Northern Okanagan; Okanagon (oka-nor) Southern (oka-sth) Brief Description: "Okanagan is an Interior Salish language, spoken in a number of communities in southern interior British Columbia and northeastern Washington. There are seven Okanagan Reserves in British Columbia: Vernon, Douglas Lake, Westbank, Penticton, Keremeos (Lower Similkameen), Hedley (Upper Similkameen), and Oliver (Osoyoos). Except for the Westbank Reserve, which may have as few as a dozen fluent speakers, all of the Okanagan Reserves have at least 50 speakers of varying degrees of fluency, the Vernon Reserve perhaps over 100." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 20

Endangerment Status

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