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Halkomelem (/ˌhɒlkəˈmeɪləm/; Halq̓eméylem in the
Upriver dialect, Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓ in the
Island dialect, and hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ in the
Downriver dialect) is...
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peoples speaking Halkomelem, or who did so
historically (as most
living members of
those peoples no
longer speak them). The term
Halkomelem people has been...
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total po****tion. The
region was
historically occupied by the Sto:lo, a
Halkomelem-speaking
people of the
Coast Salish linguistic and
cultural grouping....
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headed the
Halkomelem Language Program at the
Coqualeetza Education Training Centre in Sardis,
British Columbia. He
developed the Stó:lō
Halkomelem orthography...
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Halkomelem are
Kwelshan and Kwelxá:lxw respectively. The name in the
nearby Thompson language, kʷəlhéləxʷ, may be a loan from
Nooksack or
Halkomelem....
- with a suffix,
while the
intransitive forms are not. In
others such as
Halkomelem,
intransitive forms have a
suffix as well. In some
Salish languages, transitivizers...
- (
Halkomelem: Kwaʼmutsun)
Comiaken (
Halkomelem: Qwʼumiyiqun)
Koksilah (
Halkomelem: Xwulqwʼselu)
Somena (
Halkomelem: Sʼamunaʼ)
Clemclemluts (
Halkomelem:...
- to
Abies magnifica). One
Coast Salish name for the tree, used in the
Halkomelem language, is lá:yelhp. In the
Lushootseed language, the tree is called...
- (Kwak'wala
speaking today)
Sliammon Homalco Klahoose Halkomelem-speaking
Hulquminum (Island
Halkomelem):
Hwlitsum (Lamalcha or Lamalchi)
Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo)...
- a few
German names such as
Zschopau and Zschorlau.
There are
several Halkomelem alphabets. The
Cowichan alphabet includes the
tetragraph ⟨tthʼ⟩ for the...
