Concept information
Preferred term
okaOkanagan
Type
-
Language
Definition
- Colville-Okanagan is a Salish language which arose among the inhabitants of the Okanagan River Basin and spread into the Columbia River Basin. Following British, American, and Canadian colonization during the 1800s and the subsequent repression of all Salishan languages, the use of Colville-Okanagan declined drastically. Colville-Okanagan is highly endangered and is rarely learned as either a first or second language. There are about 150 deeply fluent speakers of Colville-Okanagan Salish, the majority of whom live in British Columbia. The language is currently moribund and has no fluent speakers younger than 50 years of age. Colville-Okanagan is the second most spoken Salish language after Shuswap.
Entry terms
- Colville-Okanagan language
ISO 639-3 code
- oka
Notation
- oka
In other languages
-
Colville-okanagan
French
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/oka
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