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 Report on the status of B.C. First Nations Languages
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

159

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

279

Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

1328

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Numbers for speakers in British Columbia only.

Year of info

2018

Location and Context

Countries

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Government support

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Other languages used

English

Domains of other languages

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

195

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Canada

Coordinates

56.481,-121.8831

Location description

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Government support

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

150

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

Location and Context

Countries

Canada

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Government support

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

300

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Ethnic Population

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Canada

Coordinates

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Location description

Eastern British Columbia and Northwestern Alberta. Spoken in the communities of Doig, Blueberry, Hudson Hope, and Prophet River in British Columbia and in the communities of Horse Lakes, Clear Hills, Boyer River, and Rock Lane in Alberta.

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Other writing systems

Eastern British Columbia and Northwestern Alberta. Spoken in the communities of Doig, Blueberry, Hudson Hope, and Prophet River in British Columbia and in the communities of Horse Lakes, Clear Hills, Boyer River, and Rock Lane in Alberta.

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

300

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

600

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Data for the number of native speakers comes from Kinkade (1991). Data for the ethnic population is from SIL (1987).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Canada;

Coordinates

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Location description

Northeast British Columbia and northwest Alberta, Chateh (Assumption) on Hay river, and Prophet river south of Fort Nelson.

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Northeast British Columbia and northwest Alberta, Chateh (Assumption) on Hay river, and Prophet river south of Fort Nelson.

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

160

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

450

Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

15560

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

160 (FPCC 2014). 450 semi-speakers (FPCC 2014). Ethnic population: 1,560 (FPCC 2014).

Year of info

2016

Location and Context

Countries

Canada

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Government support

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Other languages used

English

Domains of other languages

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

168

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

582

Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

4568

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Canada

Coordinates

57.1500000, -122.0000000

Location description

British Columbia

Government support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

British Columbia

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~300

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

There are about 300 speakers. Although Beaver is partially intelligible to speakers of emergent languages in the Dene dialect complex, for political and geographical reasons it is not usually considered a Dene language.

Year of info

2008

Location and Context

Countries

Canada

Coordinates

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Location description

British Columbia, Alberta. Eastern British Columbia (in the communities of Doig, Blueberry, Hudson Hope, and Prophet River) and in northwestern Alberta (in the communities of Horse Lakes, Clear Hills, Boyer River, and Rock Lane).

Government support

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Institutional support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

British Columbia, Alberta. Eastern British Columbia (in the communities of Doig, Blueberry, Hudson Hope, and Prophet River) and in northwestern Alberta (in the communities of Horse Lakes, Clear Hills, Boyer River, and Rock Lane).

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

156

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

454

Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Numbers for speakers in British Columbia only.

Year of info

2014

Location and Context

Countries

Canada

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Government support

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

300

Domains of Use

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  3. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  4. Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen (DoBeS)
    Bedrohter Sprachen, Dokumentation. Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen (DoBeS). http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/ (October, 2011)
    http://lux09.mpi.nl:8186/DOBES/
  5. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages
    Moseley, Christopher. 2007. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X
  6. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  7. North America
    Victor Golla, Ives Goddard, Lyle Campbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2008. "North America." In Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by Chris Moseley and Ron Asher. 7-41. Routledge.
  8. First Peoples' Language Map of British Columbia
    2012. "First Peoples' Language Map of British Columbia." edited by First Peoples' Cultural Council. Online: http://www.maps.fphlcc.ca/.
    http://www.maps.fphlcc.ca/
  9. Beaver Texts, Beaver Dialect
    Goddard, P. E. 1917. "Beaver Texts, Beaver Dialect." In Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, X , no. V, VI: 295-397, 399-553.
  10. The Phonology and Morphology of Halfway River Beaver
    Randoja, Tiina. The Phonology and Morphology of Halfway River Beaver. PhD thesis, University of Ottawa, 1989.