Haida

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Haida is an Indigenous language of the Pacific Northwest Coast, traditionally spoken by the Haida people of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia and parts of southeastern Alaska.

All labels observed (10)

Label Occurrences
Haida canonical 26
Haida people 18
Northern Haida 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous language
North American Indigenous language
isolate language
language
country Canada
United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalAssociation Haida art
Haida mythology
Haida oral literature
endangeredStatus severely endangered
ethnicity Haida self-link
governingBody Council of the Haida Nation
hasAlternativeName X̱aad Kíl
X̱aad Kíl
surface form: X̱aayda Kil
hasDialect Haida self-linksurface differs
surface form: Alaskan Haida

Haida self-linksurface differs
surface form: Masset Haida

Haida self-linksurface differs
surface form: Skidegate Haida
hasGlottocode haid1248
hasLinguisticArea Pacific Northwest
surface form: Pacific Northwest Sprachbund
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
polysynthetic
hasPhonologicalFeature ejective consonants
glottalized sonorants
hasResourceType bilingual dictionary
descriptive grammar
text collections
hasWordOrder verb–object–subject
verb–subject–object
ISO639-2Code hai
ISO639-3Code hai
languageFamily language isolate
languageStatus moribund
region Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples
surface form: Pacific Northwest Coast
revitalizationEffort community classes
documentation projects
language immersion programs
spokenBy Haida self-linksurface differs
surface form: Haida people
spokenIn British Columbia
Haida Gwaii
southeastern Alaska
traditionalRegion Haida Gwaii
Prince of Wales Island
usedFor ceremonial speech
oral tradition
songs
storytelling
writingSystem Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (58)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Haida Nation peopleAlsoCalled Haida
this entity surface form: Haida people
Masset dialect ethnicGroup Haida
this entity surface form: Haida people
Masset dialect languageBranch Haida
this entity surface form: Northern Haida
Skidegate dialect ethnicGroup Haida
this entity surface form: Haida people
Skidegate dialect alsoKnownAs Haida
this entity surface form: Southern Haida
southern Alaska isInhabitedBy Haida
subject surface form: Southern Alaska
this entity surface form: Haida people