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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

50-100

Domains of Use

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Haida, distinct dialects: Masset (pop. 750) and Skidegate (pop. 500). Between 50 and 100 first-language speakers, none younger than 50, are divided between the two communities; only those over 70 are active speakers. Only about 15 Alaskan Haidas, all very elderly, are active speakers of the language.

Year of info

2008

Location and Context

Countries

Canada; USA;

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Standard orthography

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

English

Domains of other languages

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

19

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Semi-speakers

21

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

3442

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Numbers only for speakers in British Columbia

Year of info

2018

Location and Context

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

English

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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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

53.2697, -131.9861; 54.0397, -132.1776

Location description

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Government support

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

32

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers

515

Semi-speakers

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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

4,066

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

http://maps.fphlcc.ca/xaad_kil

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Canada;

Coordinates

53.4800000, -132.3300000

Location description

British Columbia

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

British Columbia

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

English

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

50-100

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

~1,850

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Canada; USA;

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Location description

Queen Charlotte Islands and Alaska. Spoken in two Haida villages on the Queen Charlottes, each with a distinct dialect: Masset and Skidegate. Additional Haida people live in Alaska (representing an 18th century migration from Masset), in the villages of Hydaburg, Kasaan, and Craig on the southern half of Prince of Wales Island, as well as in the city of Ketchikan.

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Queen Charlotte Islands and Alaska. Spoken in two Haida villages on the Queen Charlottes, each with a distinct dialect: Masset and Skidegate. Additional Haida people live in Alaska (representing an 18th century migration from Masset), in the villages of Hydaburg, Kasaan, and Craig on the southern half of Prince of Wales Island, as well as in the city of Ketchikan.

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The language is taught at Skidegate in a community-based immersion program, and has been offered for university credit in partnership with the University of Northern British Columbia.

Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

30

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2006

Location and Context

Countries

Canada;

Coordinates

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Location description

Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

Government support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

English

Domains of other languages

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

9

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Semi-speakers

13

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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Numbers only for speakers in British Columbia.

Year of info

2014

Location and Context

Countries

Canada: British Columbia

Coordinates

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Government support

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Other languages used

English

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  1. "Northern (Massett) Haida Toponymy and Geographic Knowledge" HRELP Abstract
    Ignace, Marianne. 2006. ""Northern (Massett) Haida Toponymy and Geographic Knowledge" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=104.
    http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=104
  2. 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.
  3. 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/
  4. 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
  5. North America
    Golla, Victor. 2007. "North America." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 1-96. London & New York: Routledge.
  6. 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/