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Original Text for Southern Carrier Language
Southern Carrier or Lower Carrier is an endangered dialect group of the Athabaskan Carrier language of British Columbia, Canada. The dialects belonging to Southern Carrier roughly correspond to those to the south of Fort St. James. The group is divided into two subgroups Fraser/Nechako and Blackwater which are further subdivided into individual dialects.

The Fraser/Nechako subdivision of Southern Carrier includes the Lheidli, Saik'uz, Nadleh, Stelakoh, and Cheslatta dialects. The Blackwater division includes the Red Bluff, Nazko, Kluskus, and Ulkatcho dialects.

Southern Carrier Language
Southern Carrier, Lower Carrier or locally known as Dakelh is an endangered dialect group of the Athabaskan Carrier language of British Columbia, Canada. The dialects belonging to Southern Carrier roughly correspond to those to the south of Fort St. James. The group is divided into two subgroups, Fraser/ Nechakoh and Blackwater which are further subdivided into individual dialects.  

The Fraser/ Nechakoh subdivision of Southern Carrier includes the Lheidli, Saik'uz, Nadleh, Nautey, Stelakoh, Stoney Creek, Prince George and Cheslatta dialects. The Blackwater division includes the Anahim Lake, Red Bluff, Nazko, Kluskus, and Ulkatcho dialects.

Southern Carrier has an extremely extensive and productive system of noun classifications. It has multiple classification subsystems and they can take place in the same sentence or same verb.

Fluent Speakers
According to a 2016 census done by the Government of Canada, there were 1,270 number of fluent speakers for the Carrier language. With 1,045 speakers with the language as a single mother tongue and 225 speakers with the language as one of their mother tongues.

FirstVoices Website
FirstVoices is a website made by the First Peoples' Cultural Council of British Columbia, Canada. It serves the function of archiving and teaching Indigenous languages. Dakelh / Southern Carrier language is one of the languages that is documented with the information presented on the website. The information includes alphabets, words, phrases, songs, and stories. Both orthography and voice recordings are shown on the website. Games and a kids portal are also available for users to engage with the language.

FirstVoices App
The Nazko-Dakelh mobile application works as a bilingual dictionary and phrase collection of the Dakelh / Southern Carrier language archived at the FirstVoices website. It can be downloaded available for free on both Apple and Android mobile operating systems.