Southern Tsimshian dialect

Southern Tsimshian, Sgüüx̣s or Ski꞉xs, is the southern dialect of the Tsimshian language, spoken by the Gitga'ata and Kitasoo Tsimshians in Klemtu, B.C.. It became extinct with the death of the last remaining speaker, Violet Neasloss.

Southern Tsimshian
Sgüüx̣s
Native toCanada
Regionnorthwest British Columbia
EthnicityTsimshian people
Extinct2013, with the death of Violet Neasloss[1][2]
Tsimshianic
  • Maritime Tsimshian
    • Southern Tsimshian
Language codes
ISO 639-2tsi
ISO 639-3tsi (with Coast Tsimshian)
tsi-sou
Glottologsout2962
ELPSki:xs (Southern Tsimshian)[3]

Sgüüx̣s has been described[4] as a highly conservative dialect of Coast Tsimshian. The name Sgüüx̣s means "the language beside."

Several articles on the language were written by Tsimshian specialist John Asher Dunn.[5]

Further reading
  1. "An amazing woman has gone to sleep, and her language with her • r/linguistics". reddit. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  2. muskwatch (17 December 2013). "Visiting with Violet Neasloss in Klemtu". Retrieved 2 May 2017 – via YouTube.
  3. Endangered Languages Project data for Ski:xs (Southern Tsimshian).
  4. Mithun, Marianne (2001). The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge University Press. p. 525. ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
  5. "South Tsimshian Bibliography". ydli.org. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
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