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    Tsamosan languages are often identified in ethnographic literature as "Coast Salish". The word Halkomelem is an anglicization for the language Hul'qumi'num...
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    needed] Halkomelem Upriver Halkomelem (Halq̓eméylem)[citation needed] Downriver Halkomelem (hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓)[citation needed] Island Halkomelem (Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓)[citation...
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    Musqueam First Nation (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    Hunquminum (hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓), the downriver dialect of the Salishan language Halkomelem. The Musqueam people are closely related to neighbouring peoples...
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    Douglas fir (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    Coast Salish name for the tree, used in the Halkomelem language, is lá:yelhp. In the Lushootseed language, the tree is called čəbidac. Pseudotsuga menziesii...
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  • Nooksack is most closely related to the Squamish, shíshálh and Halkomelem languages, which are all spoken in nearby parts of British Columbia, Canada...
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    Fraser River (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    the Halqemeylem (Upriver Halkomelem) language is Sto:lo, often seen archaically as Staulo, and has been adopted by the Halkomelem-speaking peoples of the...
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  • incorporated nouns. Gerdts (2003) gives examples of lexical suffixes in the Halkomelem language (the word order here is verb–subject–object): In sentence (1), the...
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    Thuja plicata (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    domain. Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume II pp. 1605. Galloway, Brent Douglas Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I pp. 996. Galloway, Brent...
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    Squamish is most closely related to the Sechelt, Halkomelem, and Nooksack languages. The Squamish language was first documented in the 1880s by a German...
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    Mount Baker (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    the names for Mount Baker in Lummi and Halkomelem are Kwelshan and Kwelxá:lxw respectively. In the language of the unidentified "Koma tribe," the name...
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    American mink (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    taadle Delaware Munsee: wiiníingwus Unami: wininkwës Gitxsan: lis'in Halkomelem Hul'q'umi'num: chuchi'q'un' Halqeméylem: ts'qáyex̱iya Heiltsuk-Oowekyala:...
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    spoken Nooksack, one of the Salishan family of languages. It is closely related to the Halkomelem language of coastal British Columbia, and at one time...
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    Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    Chilliwack Halkomelem (PhD). University of California, Berkeley. pp. 1–35 – via eScholarship. Ostapirat, Weera (2008). "The Hlai Language". In Diller...
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    Richmond, British Columbia (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    Retrieved 23 August 2022. "Demonyms—From coast to coast to coast – Language articles – Language Portal of Canada". Archived from the original on 30 August 2014...
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    Twana, Straits Salishan languages, and Halkomelem). There are three general patterns of negation among the Salishan languages. The most common pattern...
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  • (HUR), a former Danish regional development organisation Halkomelem language, ISO 639-3 language code hur Handball Union of Russia (HUR) ELAV-like protein...
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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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    Burrard Inlet (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    Burrard Inlet (Halkomelem: səl̓ilw̓ət) is a shallow-sided fjord in the northwestern Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada. Formed during the last Ice...
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    Duncan, British Columbia (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    Valley Regional District Board. The name Cowichan is an Anglicization of Halkomelem Quw̓utsun̓, which means "the warm land". The city is served by the Trans-Canada...
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    Kitsilano (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    have been renamed in the hən'q'əmin'əm' (Musqueam Halkomelem) or Skwxwú7mesh Snichim (Squamish language). Vanier Park is another one of Kitsilano's most...
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    Tsleil-Waututh First Nation (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    Salish peoples who speak hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, the Downriver dialect of the Halkomelem language, and are closely related to but politically and culturally separate...
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  • British Columbia Highway 5 (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    the Coquihalla Pass. The pass is named Kwʼikwʼiya꞉la in the Halq̓eméylem language used by the Stó꞉lō, which means "stingy container" and refers specifically...
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    Larry Grant (elder) (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    for the Musqueam language and culture department, and works towards revitalizing the Hən̓q̓əmín̓əm̓ (Downriver Halkomelem) language. He serves as an adjunct...
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  • An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
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    The Halalt First Nation (Halkomelem Language: xeláltxw) is a First Nations tribe located on a reservation near Chemainus in southeastern Vancouver Island...
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  • Voiceless dental fricative (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    some spoken languages. It is familiar to English speakers as the 'th' in think. Though rather rare as a phoneme among the world's languages, it is encountered...
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    Senakw (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    49°16′25″N 123°08′33″W / 49.2735°N 123.1426°W / 49.2735; -123.1426 Sen̓áḵw (Salishan pronunciation: [sen̰aqʷ]) or sən̓aʔqʷ (Salishan pronunciation:...
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    Tsawwassen First Nation (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    The Tsawwassen First Nation (Halkomelem: sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ, pronounced [st͡sʼəwaθən məstejəxʷ]) is a First Nations government whose lands are located...
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    Bilabial ejective stop (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    bilabial ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...
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    Kwantlen First Nation (category Articles containing Halkomelem-language text)
    traditionally speak hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, the Downriver dialect of Halkomelem, one of the Salishan family languages. The Kwantlen are a Stó:lō people (an ethnicity which...
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