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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Halkomelem,Holkomelem


<b>Description:</b>

Halkomelem (also Halq'eméylem, Hul'qumi'num', and Hǝn'q'ǝmin'ǝm') is a Coast Salishan language of the First Nations around the Fraser River and the southern end of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Halkomelem is most closely related to Sḵwxwú7mesh snichim (Squamish), Sháshíshálh (Sechelt), and Lhéchalosem (Nooksack).
The word "Halkomelem" is an anglicization for a language with three dialects: Halq'eméylem, the dialect spoken by the upriver Stó:lō of the Fraser Valley, Hǝn'q'ǝmin'ǝm', the dialect of the downriver Stó:lō, and Hulq'umín'um', spoken by six separate but closely related First Nations in the Georgia Strait area: the Chemainus, Cowichan, Halalt, Lake Cowichan, Lyackson, and Penelakut.
In 1977 Brent Galloway of the University of California, Berkeley compiled the first grammar of Upriver (Chilliwack) Halkomelem and developed the now-official Stó:lō orthography. He is currently working on a Halkomelem dictionary.
According to Galloway, some words in Halkomelem "encapsulate the whole knowledge of the culture." The language has a rich oral literature which shows a whole way of looking at the universe that is different from that of English or other European languages.
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/canada Canada]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/americas Americas] 
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>hur</td></tr>

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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Salishan Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Central Salish Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Halkomelem Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Halkomelem Language]]</b>

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