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Sinixt (''sn-selxcin'') is a Salish language traditionally spoken among the Sinixt people of the southern Interior Plateau region, and based primarily in the Columbia River Basin. It is a dialect of the Okanagan language, and is closely related to other southern interior Salish languages such as Flathead/Kalispel, which is also called ''selxcin'' by speakers. ==Name and variants== Names for the different Salishan plateau languages are based in the land on which they are spoken, and, since colonization and the relocation of Interior Salish families, the differences between these languages are not as well-known today, and a more generalized language has come into use."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sinixtnation.org/content/language )〕 However, the Sinixt state on their website that they wish to preserve their language, with its unique dialectic differences, as exactly as possible, no matter how insignificant the pronunciation differences may be between the various dialects. They also "encourage people working to save the language to respect these dialects whenever possible and to honor them."〔 The Sinixt Nation website also states that "(o)riginally there were two versions of the language for Sinixt peoples, one for the men (''sn-skəlxʷcin'' or language of humans) and one for the women (''sn-səlxcin'' or language of water). Both of these dialects were understood by all Sinixt people but reserved for speaking only by the determined sex." The language used today "is a combination of the two." 〔 Anthropologist James Teit noted in 1909 that the Sinixt dialect was distinguished from other plateau Salishan dialects by the slow and measured manner in which is was spoken.〔The Shuswap, Teit, James. 1909, p456〕〔Salish Ethnographic Materials, Teit, James. 1909, BC Archives; cited in First Nations Aboriginal Interests and Traditional Use in the Waneta Hydroelectric Expansion Project Area. Bouchard, Randy and Kennedy, Dorothy. 2005〕 It is unknown how many fluent speakers of the Sinixt language there are at this time although the Sinixt Nation website states that it is an endangered language "at risk of being lost forever if serious initiatives are not undertaken."〔 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「Sinixt dialect」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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