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信息不完整 “Report on the Status of B.C. First Nations Languages (Fourth Edition)” . Gessner, Suzanne, Tracey Herbertn and Aliana Parker (2022)
信息不完整 “Report on the Status of B.C. First Nations Languages (Fourth Edition)” . Gessner, Suzanne, Tracey Herbertn and Aliana Parker (2022)
There are 2 Head Start education programs for Ktunaxa language, 2 First Nations schools and 1 public school offering language learning, and university courses in the language.
信息不完整 “ Report on the status of B.C. First Nations Languages” . Britt Dunlop, Suzanne Gessner, Tracey Herbert & Aliana Parker (2018) First People's Cultural Council
2.9% fluent speakers, 11.1% semispeakers, 32.1% active learners
信息不完整 “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge
Speaker number: Spoken by elders in all the communities.
The language is spoken by elders in all the communities, and there were monolingual speakers at Tobacco Plains and Bonners Ferry as recently as the 1980s. With a few exceptions, the youngest first-language speakers are in their 50s, and even some of them have more of a passive knowledge of the language than active fluency.
The language is spoken by elders in all the communities ... With a few exceptions, the youngest first-language speakers are in their 50s, and even some of them have more of a passive knowledge of the language than active fluency.
Montana, Idaho, and British Columbia
Three politically independent groups in Montana, Idaho, and British Columbia (Ktunaxa is the official name in Canada). The Montana Kootenai are part of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, and are concentrated at the northern end of the Flathead Reservation, around Elmo. The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho has a reservation near Bonners Ferry, in the Idaho panhandle. The communities in British Columbia are represented by the Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Tribal Council and include the Lower Kootenay Band, with a reserve near Creston; the Tobacco Plains Band with a reserve at Grasmere; the St. Mary’s Band with a reserve near Cranbrook; and the Columbia Lake Band with a reserve at Windermere.
信息不完整 “Endangered Languages of the United States” (108-130) . Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell (2010) , Christopher Moseley · UNESCO
信息不完整 “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
信息不完整 “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 19th Edition (2016)” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
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Canada: 25 (FPCC 2014). 20 semi-speakers (FPCC 2014). Ethnic population: 1,150 (FPCC 2014).
US: 6 (2002), decreasing. Ethnic population: 360 (2000 census).
Speakers 50 and older.
English
Canada: British Columbia province: Columbia Lake, Lower Kootenay, Saint Mary’s, Tobacco Plains.
US: Idaho: Flathead Reservation; Montana.