Also Known As:
Ski:xs, Sguxs, Old Klemtu, Klemtu, Sküüxs, Southern Tsimshian
Dialects & Varieties
IPY-Documenting Alaskan and Neighboring Languages
IPY-Documenting Alaskan and Neighboring Languages
Critically Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
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Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
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Location and Context
Countries
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Location Description
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Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
English
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
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Recent Resources
A document containing the history of the Tsimshian people: Southern Tsimshian, Coast Tsimshian, Nish
Southern Tsimshian and Upper North Wakashan Ethnobotany, a study of plants.
Geopolitics of the Tsimshian people, aka.