Kwak'wala
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| Kwakiutl Kwak'wala |
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| Spoken in: | Northern Vancouver Island, Canada | |
| Total speakers: | ~250 | |
| Language family: | Wakashan Northern Kwakiutl |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | nai | |
| ISO 639-3: | kwk | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Kwak'wala (also Kwagiutl) or Kwakiutl is the Wakashan language spoken by the Kwakwaka'wakw. There are about 250 Kwak'wala speakers today which is only about 5% of the entire Kwakwaka'wakw population.
[edit] References
- Boas, Franz (Jan. 1893). "Vocabulary of the Kwakiutl language". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 31 (140): 34–82.
- Boas, Franz (Oct.–Dec. 1900). "Sketch of the Kwakiutl language". American Anthropologist 2 (4): 708–721.
- Boas, Franz (Jul. 1924). "A revised list of Kwakiutl suffixes". International Journal of American Linguistics 3 (1): 117–131.
- Boas, Franz (Apr. 1931). "Notes on the Kwakiutl vocabulary". International Journal of American Linguistics 6 (3/4): 163–178.
- Boas, Franz (Mar. 1932). "Notes on some recent changes in the Kwakiutl language". International Journal of American Linguistics 7 (1/2): 90–93.
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