ELP ID
12696
ELP Language
Éy7á7juuthem (Comox)
Speaker Number
10-99
Elders
most of them 55 or older
Ethnic Population
1,500
Public Comment
The last fluent speaker of Island Comox died in the mid-1990s. Although in the early 1980s Mainland Comox was reported to be spoken fluently by about one-third of the population, in 2000 it was estimated that there were 60 or fewer active first-language speakers, most of them 55 or older, in a total population of 1,500.
Source
North America
Preferred
Off
Speaker Number Text
<60
Speaker Number Range
10-99