Heiltsuk dialect

Heiltsuk
Bella Bella
Region	Northern Central Coast Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
Ethnicity	Heiltsuk people
Native speakers	60 (2014, FPCC)^[1]
Language family	Wakashan Northern Heiltsuk-Oowekyala Heiltsuk
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	`bell1263`^[2]

Heiltsuk /ˈheɪltsək/,^[3] also known as Bella Bella and Haihais, is a dialect of the North Wakashan (Kwakiutlan) language Heiltsuk-Oowekyala that is spoken by the Haihai (Xai'xais) and Bella Bella First Nations peoples of the Central Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, around the communities of Bella Bella and Klemtu, British Columbia. Bella Bella is the headquarters of the Heiltsuk Nation government.

Heiltsuk is spoken in the villages of Bella Bella and Klemtu, both located on coastal islands in British Columbia not far from Bella Coola and Ocean Falls. It is one of the four Northern Wakashan languages, the others being Haisla (spoken in Kitimaat), Oowekyala (in Rivers Inlet), and Kwakwala (in Alert Bay, Port Hardy, and various settlements).^[4]

Heiltsuk is considered to be a dialect of Heiltsuk-Oowekyala, which, like neighbouring Haisla and Kwak'wala, are part of the Northern Wakashan language group. Heiltsuk has both conversational and ceremonial forms.^[5]"

References

↑ Heiltsuk at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bella Bella". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ William C. Sturtevant, 1978. Handbook of North American Indians: Northwest Coast
↑ Rath, John C. (1981). A Practical Heiltsuk-English Dictionary with a Grammatical Introduction. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada.
↑ Black, Martha (1997). Bella Bella: A Season of Heiltsuk Art. Toronto/Vancouver/Seattle: Royal Ontario Museum/Douglas & McIntyre/University of Washington Press. p. xii. ISBN 1-55054-556-6.

Bibliography

Boas, Franz. (1928). Bella Bella texts. Columbia University contributions to anthropology (No. 5).
Boas, Franz. (1932). Bella Bella tales. Memoirs of the American Folklore Society (No. 25).
Howe, Darin M. (2000). Oowekyala segmental phonology. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Ottawa).
Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Poser, William J. (2003). The status of documentation for British Columbia native languages. Yinka Dene Language Institute Technical Report (No. 2). Vanderhoof, British Columbia: Yinka Dene Language Institute.
Rath, John C. (1981). A practical Heiltsuk-English dictionary with a grammatical introduction. Mercury Series paper, Canadian Ethnology Service, (No. 75). Vol. i & ii. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada.
Windsor, Evelyn W. (1982). Oowekeeno oral traditions as told by the late chief Simon Walkus, Sr. Hilton, S.; & Rath, J. (Eds.). Mercury series (No. 84). Ottawa: National Museum of Man.

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