Squamish language

Squamish
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim
Pronunciation	[sqʷχʷoʔməʃ snit͡ʃim]
Native to	Canada
Region	British Columbia
Ethnicity	4,080 Squamish people (2014, FPCC)
Native speakers	7 (2014, FPCC)
Language family	Salishan Coast Salish Central Squamish
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	`squa1248`
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Squamish /ˈskwɔːmɪʃ/ (Squamish Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim [sqʷχʷoʔməʃ snet͡ʃim], sníchim meaning "language") is a Coast Salish language spoken by the Squamish people of southwestern British Columbia, Canada, centred on their reserve communities in Squamish, North Vancouver, and West Vancouver. An archaic historical rendering of the native "Sḵwx̱wú7mesh" is "Sko-ko-mish" but this should not be confused with the name of the Skokomish people of Washington state. Squamish is most closely related to the Sechelt, Halkomelem, and Nooksack languages. Because the /ʔ/ (glottal stop) character glyph is not found on typewriters and did not exist in most fonts until the widespread adoption of Unicode, the Squamish orthography still conventionally represents the glottal stop with the number symbol "7"; of course, the same character glyph is also used as a digit to represent the number seven.

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