X̱aad Kíl

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X̱aad Kíl is the Haida language, an Indigenous language of the Haida people of Haida Gwaii and southern Alaska.

Aliases (3)

Statements (47)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Haida language
Indigenous language
language
country Canada
United States
endangeredStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Haida people
hasAlternativeName Haida
Haida language
Xaad kil
Xaayda kil
hasDialect Alaskan Haida dialect
Masset dialect
Northern Haida
Skidegate dialect
Southern Haida
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking
polysynthetic
verb-heavy morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
rich consonant inventory
hasResourceType audio recordings
dictionaries
grammars
online learning materials
ISO639-3Code hai
languageFamily Haida
languageOf Haida Gwaii
Prince of Wales Island NERFINISHED
notPartOf Na-Dene language family
partOf Northwest Coast Indigenous languages
recognizedBy Council of the Haida Nation
First Peoples’ Cultural Council
region Pacific Northwest Coast
revitalizationEffort community classes
documentation projects
immersion programs
language nests
spokenBy Haida elders
spokenIn Haida Gwaii
southern Alaska
usedFor ceremonial speech
oral tradition
songs
storytelling
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (4)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Haida
Haida ("X̱aayda Kil")
X̱aad Kíl ("Xaad kil")
X̱aad Kíl ("Xaayda kil")
hasAlternativeName

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