Talk:Nisga'a language

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Perhaps there are no fluent speakers under the age of 15, but I doubt there are no speakers at all under 15. I have visited the valley and interracted with the locals, and-- albeit during a ceremonial occassion-- I did observe young people speaking in Nisga'a.--Keefer4 11:48, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Information of that kind tends to come from www.ethnologue.com and other linguistics sources; not always up to date, and often out of whack with reality even when it was "in date".Skookum1 18:53, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

phoneme inventory questions
The FirstVoices page has  in its Nisga'a text, which makes me think it might have glottalized sonorants. The liturgy, on the other hand, doesn't, but it does have sonorant + <'> clusters, which might represent the same thing. (It also has , which I'm guessing is /ɬ/, so there's probably some orthographic variation that should be mentioned if I'm not hallucinating it.)

Also, the primer gives the name of the language as /niʃɣa/, but the YDLI page says it's /nisqaʔa/. Which is it, or is there dialectal variation? (For that matter, is there even /q/? I don't see any <ģ>s in the liturgy or FirstVoices page, so is  just another way of writing /ɣ/?) --Nortaneous (talk) 23:17, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Speakers
Visiting the Nass Valley, I learned that Nisga'a children are taught only in their native language until age 5, at which point children go to public schools and learn English. There must be more than 700 speakers as the communities are working to retain their traditions. All major community gatherings use the language, and people listen intently, meaning I imagine they all understand the language. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Logfern (talk • contribs) 20:25, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

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