Also Known As:
Ski:xs, Sguxs, Old Klemtu, Klemtu, Sküüxs, Southern Tsimshian
Dialects & Varieties
Report on the status of B.C. First Nations Languages
Report on the status of B.C. First Nations Languages
Critically Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1
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.
5
Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
5
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
4
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
519
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
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Location and Context
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Writing Systems
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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.