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Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala

Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala noun: kwak'wala (in the broad sense).

Noun

Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala

  1. Kwak'wala (in the broad sense)
    • During these activities, each student would use a Chromebook and access a downloadable file shared over the school network by the teacher. We began with a worksheet exemplified in Example 6 Match the emojis to the Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala. This worksheet was intended to be projected at the front of the class...2021, Peter John Wilson, Developing Indigenous language materials for schools and land-based documentation: Gwa'sala-'Nak'waxda'xw Nation and Kwakwala (ISO: kwk), Carleton University, page 221
    • Məca is a stop motion representation of the late Elder Ida Smith telling her grandson the 'Nakwax'daxw legend of the Mink. In this film Ida tells the story in the Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala language.2023, “2023 RUNNER-UP / Indigenous (IPLC) Film: Məca, Ritchie Hemphill, Ryan Haché”, in Films for the Forest

Forms of Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala

alternative formBakʷəmk̓ala
alternative formBak̓ʷəmgala

Origin of Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala

Unadapted borrowing from Kwak'wala Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala (U'mista).

Questions about Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala

What does Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala mean?
Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala means kwak'wala (in the broad sense).
What part of speech is Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala?
Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala is a noun.

Words near Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala in the dictionary

  1. bakwan kepiting
  2. bakwans
  3. bakwit
  4. bakwits
  5. Bakʷəmk̓ala
  6. Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala
  7. Bak̓ʷəmgala
  8. bal
  9. Bal Harbour
  10. Bal Marcoville
  11. bal musette

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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