Mainland Comox

E570910

Mainland Comox is a Coast Salish Indigenous language variety traditionally spoken in parts of coastal British Columbia, Canada.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Mainland Comox canonical 2

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Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Coast Salish language variety
Indigenous language variety
continent North America
country Canada
ethnicGroup Comox people
glottologCode main1270
glottologName Mainland Comox
hasAncestor Proto-Coast Salish
Proto-Salish
linked to: Salishan languages
hasMorphologicalFeature polysynthetic morphology
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant inventory
contrastive glottalization
hasVariety Homalco dialect
Klahoose dialect
Sliammon dialect
indigenousTo Canada
Pacific Northwest Coast
ISO639-3 coo
languageBranch Coast Salish
languageEndangerment critically low number of fluent speakers
languageFamily Salishan
linked to: Salishan languages
languageStatus endangered
severely endangered
region British Columbia
revitalizationStatus subject of language revitalization efforts
spokenIn British Columbia
Canada
subclassOf Comox language
Salishan languages
traditionalRegion coastal British Columbia
usedBy Mainland Comox communities
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tla’amin Nation languageSubfamily Mainland Comox
Mainland Comox glottologName Mainland Comox