Lillooet Language
Lillooet or Lilloet /ˈlɪluːɛt/, also known as St’át’imcets, is the Interior Salishan language of the St’át’imc, spoken in southern British Columbia, Canada around the middle Fraser and Lillooet rivers. The dialect of the Lower Lillooet people uses the name Ucwalmícwts as St’át’imcets properly means "the language of the people of Sat’, i.e. the Upper Lillooet of the Fraser River.
Lillooet is an endangered language with as few as 200 native speakers practically all of whom are over 60 years of age (Gordon 2005).
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