Nitinaht language
E530451
The Nitinaht language is a Southern Wakashan Indigenous language spoken by the Ditidaht (Nitinaht) people of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
First Nations language
ⓘ
Indigenous language ⓘ Southern Wakashan language ⓘ Wakashan language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Ditidaht
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ditidaht language ⓘ Nitinaht NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople | Nuu-chah-nulth peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Nitinaht Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Wakashan language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Makah language
ⓘ
Nuu-chah-nulth language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| culturalRole |
ceremonial language
ⓘ
language of songs and oral history ⓘ language of traditional stories ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ditidaht First Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottologCode | diti1242 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Ditidaht NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation |
grammatical descriptions
ⓘ
lexicons and wordlists ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
head-marking morphology
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polysynthetic morphology ⓘ predicate-initial word order ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
complex consonant clusters
ⓘ
ejective consonants ⓘ glottalized consonants ⓘ vowel length contrast ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEffort |
community language classes
ⓘ
curriculum development in Ditidaht community ⓘ language documentation projects ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | Nitinaht Lake area ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| ISO639-3Code | dtd ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Wakashan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageStatus | threatened ⓘ |
| macroArea | North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | West coast of Vancouver Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Ditidaht people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nitinaht people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
British Columbia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Vancouver Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Southern Wakashan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedByOrganization | Ditidaht First Nation government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.