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Squamish Nation publishes dictionary to keep their language alive
The Squamish-English Dictionary published by the University of Washington Press and Squamish Nation Education Department. It sells for $40 through Indigo.ca.
BY KEVIN GRIFFIN, VANCOUVER SUN JUNE 17, 2011
Canada
The Squamish Nation has published for the first time in its history a dictionary designed to help the Squamish learn their own language and bring it back from the brink of extinction.
It's taken a team of elders, linguists and researchers 18 years to publish the dictionary known in Squamish as Skwxwú7mesh Sníchim-Xwelíten Sníchim Skexwts and in English as Squamish-English Dictionary.
Containing about 8,000 words in Squamish, the project was a monumental job for the community of about 3,300, whose traditional lands include the territory around Burrard Inlet, Howe Sound and the Squamish and Cheakamus River valleys.
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