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Southern Tsimshian,Sgüüx̣s[note 1](pronounced:/skiːxs/[9]) orSgüümk,[7]is the southern dialect of theTsimshian language,spoken by theGitga'ataandKitasooTsimshians inKlemtu,B.C.It became extinct with the death of the last remaining speaker, Violet Neasloss.
| Southern Tsimshian | |
|---|---|
| Sgüüx̣s | |
| Native to | Canada |
| Region | northwestBritish Columbia |
| Ethnicity | Tsimshian people |
| Extinct | 2013,[1]with the death of Violet Neasloss[2][3][better source needed] |
Tsimshianic
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | tsi |
| ISO 639-3 | tsi(withCoast Tsimshian) |
tsi-sou | |
| Glottolog | sout2962 |
| ELP | Ski:xs (Southern Tsimshian) |
| People | Ts’msyan |
|---|---|
| Language | Sgüüx̣s |
| Country | La̱xyuubm Ts’msyen[4] |
Sgüüx̣sis close toCoast Tsimshianand has been described[10]as a highly conservative dialect, however the two may not have been mutually intelligible with Coast Tsimshian.[11]The nameSgüüx̣smeans "the language beside."
SpecialistJohn Asher Dunnwrote several articles on the language,[12]from which the termSouthern Tsimshianarose.[13]
Notes
editFurther 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.Retrieved2 May2017.
- ^muskwatch (17 December 2013)."Visiting with Violet Neasloss in Klemtu".Retrieved2 May2017– 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.ISBN9780191077401.
- ^Mithun, Marianne(4 November 1999).The Languages of Native North America.Cambridge University Press.ISBN9781107392809.
- ^abMargaret Seguin, ed. (1993).The Tsimshian: Images of the Past, Views for the Present.UBC Press.ISBN9780774804738.
- ^Cataloguing the World's Endangered Languages.Taylor & Francis. 2 February 2018.ISBN9781317413899.
- ^"The South Tsimshian Language".yldi.org.Retrieved23 September2021.
- ^Mithun, Marianne (2001).The Languages of Native North America.Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge University Press. p. 525.ISBN0-521-29875-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.Retrieved21 January2011.
- ^Menzies, Charles (2016).People of the Saltwater: An Ethnography of Git Lax M'oon.University of Nebraska Press.ISBN9780803291706.