Squamish Nation publishes dictionary to keep their language alive (fwd link)

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Squamish Nation publishes dictionary to keep their language alive

BY KEVIN GRIFFIN, VANCOUVER SUN JUNE 17, 2011
Canada

The Squamish Nation has published for the first time in its history a
dictionary designed to help the Squamish learn their own language and
bring it back from the brink of extinction.

It’s taken a team of elders, linguists and researchers 18 years to
publish the dictionary known in Squamish as Skwxwú7mesh
Sníchim-Xwelíten Sníchim Skexwts and in English as Squamish-English
Dictionary.

Containing about 8,000 words in Squamish, the project was a monumental
job for the community of about 3,300, whose traditional lands include
the territory around Burrard Inlet, Howe Sound and the Squamish and
Cheakamus River valleys.

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