Southern Tsimshian dialect
Tsimshian variety of British Columbia, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Southern Tsimshian, Sgüüx̣s[note 1] (pronounced: /skiːxs/[9]) or Sgüümk,[7] is the southern dialect of the Tsimshian language, spoken by the Gitga'ata and Kitasoo Tsimshians in Klemtu, B.C. It became extinct with the death of the last remaining speaker, Violet Neasloss.
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Quick Facts Native to, Region ...
Southern Tsimshian | |
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Sgüüx̣s | |
Native to | Canada |
Region | northwest British Columbia |
Ethnicity | Tsimshian people |
Extinct | 2013,[1] with the death of Violet Neasloss[2][3][better source needed] |
Tsimshianic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | tsi |
ISO 639-3 | tsi (with Coast Tsimshian) |
tsi-sou | |
Glottolog | sout2962 |
ELP | Ski:xs (Southern Tsimshian) |
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Sgüüx̣s is close to Coast Tsimshian and has been described[10] as a highly conservative dialect, however the two may not have been mutually intelligible with Coast Tsimshian.[11] The name Sgüüx̣s means "the language beside."
Specialist John Asher Dunn wrote several articles on the language,[12] from which the term Southern Tsimshian arose.[13]