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Ditidaht (also Nitinaht, Nitinat, Southern Nootkan) is a South Wakashan (Nootkan) language spoken on the southern part of Vancouver Island. Nitinaht is related to the other South Wakashan languages, Makah and the neighboring Nuu-chah-nulth. ==Status and history== The number of native Ditidaht speakers dwindled from about thirty in the 1990s〔Mithun, Marianne. (1999). ''The languages of Native North America''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 〕 to just eight by 2006.〔Kwong, Matthew. (2006-07-22). "(Standing by their words )". The Globe and Mail. 〕 In 2003 the Ditidaht council approved construction of a $4.2 million community school to teach students on the Ditidaht (Malachan) reserve their language and culture from kindergarten to Grade 12. The program was successful in its first years and produced its first high-school graduate in 2005.〔 In 2014, the number of fluent Ditidaht speakers was 7, the number of individuals who have a good grasp on the language 6, and there were 55 people learning the language.〔http://maps.fphlcc.ca/_ditidaht〕 Ditidaht has been the subject of considerable linguistic research including the publication of texts and, in 1981, an introductory university-level textbook.〔http://www.ydli.org/biblios/ditbib.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ditidaht language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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