Columbia-Moses language

Columbia-Moses
Columbia-Wenatchi
Nxaảmxcín
Native to United States of America
Region northern Idaho, eastern Washington
Ethnicity 230 (2000 census)[1]
Native speakers
40 (2007)[1]
Salishan
Dialects
Columbian
Wenatchi
Language codes
ISO 639-3 col
Glottolog colu1241[2]

Columbia-Moses, or Columbia-Wenatchi, is a Southern Interior Salish language, also known as Nxaảmxcín. Speakers currently reside on the Colville Indian Reservation

There are two dialects, Columbia (Sinkiuse, Columbian) and Wenatchi (Wenatchee, Entiat, Chelan). Wenatchi is the heritage language of the Wenatchi, Chelan, and Entiat tribes, Columbian of the Sinkiuse-Columbia.

References

  1. 1 2 Columbia-Moses at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Columbia-Wenatchi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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