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Southern Tsimshian dialect 
Summary
Southern Tsimshian, Sgüüx̣s[note 1] (pronounced: /skiːxs/[9]) or Sgüümk,[7] is the southern dialect of the Tsimshian language, spoken by the Gitga'ata and Kitasoo Tsimshians in Klemtu, B.C. It became extinct with the death of the last remaining speaker, Violet Neasloss.
| Southern Tsimshian | |
|---|---|
| Sgüüx̣s | |
| Native to | Canada |
| Region | northwest British Columbia |
| Ethnicity | Tsimshian people |
| Extinct | 2013,[1] with the death of Violet Neasloss[2][3][better source needed] |
Tsimshianic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | tsi |
| ISO 639-3 | tsi (with Coast Tsimshian) |
tsi-sou | |
| Glottolog | sout2962 |
| ELP | Ski:xs (Southern Tsimshian) |
| People | Ts’msyan |
|---|---|
| Language | Sgüüx̣s |
| Country | La̱xyuubm Ts’msyen[4] |
Sgüüx̣s is close to Coast Tsimshian and has been described[10] as a highly conservative dialect, however the two may not have been mutually intelligible with Coast Tsimshian.[11] The name Sgüüx̣s means "the language beside."
Specialist John Asher Dunn wrote several articles on the language,[12] from which the term Southern Tsimshian arose.[13]
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Further reading edit
- ^ Dunlop, Britt; Gessner, Suzanne; Herbert, Tracey; Parker, Aliana (2018). Report on the status of B.C. First Nations Languages (PDF) (Report) (3rd ed.). First People's Cultural Council.
- ^ "An amazing woman has gone to sleep, and her language with her • r/linguistics". reddit. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ^ muskwatch (17 December 2013). "Visiting with Violet Neasloss in Klemtu". Retrieved 2 May 2017 – via YouTube.
- ^ Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda; Lyons, Natasha; McAlvay, Alex C.; Ritchie, Patrick Morgan; Lepfsky, Dana; Blake, Michael (2023). "Historical ecology of forest garden management in Laxyuubm Ts'msyen and beyond". Ecosystems and People. 19 (1). doi:10.1080/26395916.2022.2160823.
- ^ Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, ed. (18 January 2018). The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780191077401.
- ^ Mithun, Marianne (4 November 1999). The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107392809.
- ^ a b Margaret Seguin, ed. (1993). The Tsimshian: Images of the Past, Views for the Present. UBC Press. ISBN 9780774804738.
- ^ Cataloguing the World's Endangered Languages. Taylor & Francis. 2 February 2018. ISBN 9781317413899.
- ^ "The South Tsimshian Language". yldi.org. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
- ^ Mithun, Marianne (2001). The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge University Press. p. 525. ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
- ^ Halpin, Marjorie; Seguin, Margaret (1990). "Tsimshian Peoples: Southern Tsimshian, Coast Tsimshian, Nishga, and Gitksan". Handbook of North American Indians (PDF). Vol. 7. p. 267.
- ^ "South Tsimshian Bibliography". ydli.org. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
- ^ Menzies, Charles (2016). People of the Saltwater: An Ethnography of Git Lax M'oon. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803291706.