Thompson River Salish

E496892

Thompson River Salish is an Interior Salish language traditionally spoken by the Nlaka'pamux people of British Columbia, Canada.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Thompson River Salish canonical 6

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Interior Salish language ⓘ
indigenous language of North America ⓘ
language ⓘ
alternateName Nlaka'pamuctsin ⓘ
linked to: Nlaka'pamux

Ntlakapmuk ⓘ
linked to: Nlaka'pamuq

Thompson ⓘ
Thompson language ⓘ
associatedPeople Nlaka'pamux Nation ⓘ
country Canada ⓘ
culturalSignificance central to Nlaka'pamux identity ⓘ
vehicle for transmission of traditional knowledge ⓘ
documentedBy linguists specializing in Salishan languages ⓘ
endangeredStatus endangered language ⓘ
ethnicGroup Nlaka'pamux ⓘ
hasDialects regional varieties along the Fraser and Thompson Rivers ⓘ
hasGlottocode thom1248 ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verb morphology ⓘ
polysynthetic morphology ⓘ
hasOrthography practical orthographies developed in the 20th century ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature ejective consonants ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature predicate-initial word order tendencies ⓘ
ISO639-3Code thp ⓘ
languageBranch Interior Salish ⓘ
languageFamily Salishan languages ⓘ
linguisticArea Pacific Northwest linguistic area ⓘ
neighboringLanguages Lillooet ⓘ
Okanagan ⓘ
Shuswap ⓘ
partOf Interior Salish subgroup of the Salishan family ⓘ
primaryLocation south-central British Columbia ⓘ
region Thompson River region ⓘ
revitalizationEfforts community-based language programs ⓘ
language classes in Nlaka'pamux communities ⓘ
spokenIn British Columbia ⓘ
Canada ⓘ
status severely endangered ⓘ
subclassOf Salishan language ⓘ
traditionalSpeakers Nlaka'pamux people ⓘ
usedBy Nlaka'pamux communities ⓘ
linked to: Nlaka'pamux people
usedFor ceremonial contexts ⓘ
oral history ⓘ
traditional stories ⓘ
usedIn community signage in some Nlaka'pamux areas ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Salishan languages → hasLanguage → Thompson River Salish ⓘ
Nlaka'pamux people → hasAlternativeName → Thompson River Salish ⓘ
Nlaka’pamux Nation → hasAlternativeName → Thompson River Salish ⓘ
Nlaka'pamux language → hasAlternativeName → Thompson River Salish ⓘ
Nlaka'pamuq → hasAlternateName → Thompson River Salish ⓘ
Thompson language → alternateName → Thompson River Salish ⓘ