| Also Known As: St'at'imcets
Description:
St'at'imcets (also Lillooet, Lilloet, St’át’imcets) is an Interior Salishan language spoken in southern British Columbia, Canada around the middle Fraser and Lillooet rivers by the St'at'imc people. The dialect of the Lower Lillooet people uses the name Ucwalmícwts as St'at'imcets properly means "the language of the people of Sat', i.e. the Upper Lillooet of the Fraser River.
St'at'imcets is an endangered language with as few as 200 native speakers practically all of whom are over 60 years of age (Gordon 2005).
St'at'imcets has two main dialects:
Upper St'at'imcets is spoken around Fountain, Pavilion, Lillooet, and neighboring areas. Lower St'at'imcets is spoken around Mount Currie and neighboring areas. An additional subdialect called Skookumchuck is spoken within the Lower St'at'imcets dialect area, but there is no information available in van Eijk (1981, 1997) (which are the main references for this article).
St'at'imcets has 44 consonants:
St'at'imcets has 6 vowels:
The following table shows the vowels and consonants and their respective orthographic symbols.
Post-velar Harmony (retraction):
St'at'imcets has two main types of words:
The variable word type may be affected by..... full article at Wikipedia |
