Downriver Hul’q’umi’num’

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Downriver Hul’q’umi’num’ is a regional dialect of the Hul’q’umi’num’ Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by Indigenous communities living along the lower reaches of the Fraser River in British Columbia.

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Downriver Hul’q’umi’num’ canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional dialect
alsoKnownAs Downriver Halkomelem (Hul’q’umi’num’ variety) NERFINISHED
associatedWith Fraser River Indigenous cultures
closelyRelatedTo Island Hul’q’umi’num’
Upriver Halkomelem NERFINISHED
country Canada
endangeredStatus endangered language variety
geographicQualifier downriver
hasAncestor Proto-Coast Salish NERFINISHED
Proto-Salish NERFINISHED
hasCulturalRole maintenance of Indigenous identity along the lower Fraser River
hasDomain ceremonial speech
everyday conversation
oral tradition
hasMorphologicalFeature polysynthetic morphology
rich verbal morphology
hasOrthographicStandardization partially standardized
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
hasSyntacticFeature predicate-initial word order tendency
hasType spoken language variety
isVarietyOf Halkomelem NERFINISHED
languageFamily Coast Salish NERFINISHED
Salishan languages NERFINISHED
partOf Hul’q’umi’num’ dialect continuum NERFINISHED
region lower reaches of the Fraser River
sharesFeatureWith other Coast Salish languages
spokenAlong lower Fraser River NERFINISHED
spokenIn British Columbia NERFINISHED
Canada
subdivisionOf Hul’q’umi’num’ Coast Salish language NERFINISHED
Hul’q’umi’num’ language NERFINISHED
subjectOf language revitalization efforts
linguistic documentation projects
traditionalSpeakers Indigenous communities along the lower Fraser River
usedBy First Nations communities in the lower Fraser River area
usedIn community-based language programs
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Hul’q’umi’num’-speaking peoples hasDialect Downriver Hul’q’umi’num’