Siraya update

[William J Poser]

Heather,

I think that multilingualism was actually rather common in early times
in North America. Here in BC, for example, the Ulkatcho Carrier were
until recently bilingual in Nuxalk (Bella Coola). There is still a
large joint use area. Many Ulkatcho people can still speak or understand
Chilcotin even now. (The reason that Ulkatcho people are no longer
bilingual in Nuxalk is that hardly anybody speaks Nuxalk anymore.)

Similarly, speakers of Carrier proper from the Northwest end of
Stuart Lake also speak Babine, the neighboring language.

Bill