Thompson language

E917044

Thompson language is an Interior Salishan Indigenous language of southwestern British Columbia, traditionally spoken by the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) people.

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Label Occurrences
Thompson language canonical 3

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous language of North America
Interior Salish language
endangered language
alternateName Nlaka'pamuctsin NERFINISHED
Ntlakapmuk language NERFINISHED
Thompson River Salish NERFINISHED
Thompson Salish NERFINISHED
associatedPeople Nlaka'pamux Nation NERFINISHED
belongsToCulturalSphere Plateau cultural area of North America NERFINISHED
branch Northern Interior Salish NERFINISHED
country Canada
documentedIn grammars and dictionaries by field linguists
endonym Nlaka'pamuctsin NERFINISHED
ethnologueCode thp
exonym Thompson language
glottocode thom1248
hasDialects regional varieties along the Fraser and Thompson rivers
hasLinguisticTypology ergative‑like alignment patterns in some constructions
head‑marking
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verb morphology
polysynthetic morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature ejective consonants
rich consonant inventory
uvular consonants
hasSyntacticFeature predicate‑initial word order tendencies
ISO639-3 thp
languageFamily Salishan languages NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguages Lillooet language (St'át'imcets) NERFINISHED
Okanagan language (Nsyilxcən) NERFINISHED
Shuswap language (Secwepemctsín) NERFINISHED
region southwestern British Columbia NERFINISHED
revitalizationEfforts community‑based language classes
curriculum development in Nlaka'pamux communities
language documentation projects
spokenBy Nlaka'pamux people NERFINISHED
spokenIn British Columbia NERFINISHED
Canada
Fraser River valley NERFINISHED
Thompson River valley NERFINISHED
status severely endangered
subfamily Interior Salish NERFINISHED
subjectOf research in Salishan linguistics
traditionalTerritory Nlaka'pamux traditional lands in interior British Columbia
usedFor ceremonial speech
everyday communication among elders
traditional oral narratives
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (3)

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

Interior Salish peoples associatedLanguage Thompson language
Nlaka’pamux Nation hasLanguage Thompson language
Boothroyd Indian Band hasIndigenousLanguage Thompson language