St̓át̓imcets
St̓át̓imcets proper noun: synonym of Lillooet (language).
Proper noun
St̓át̓imcets
- Synonym of Lillooet (language).
- Lorna Williams, the chair of the First Peoples’ Cultural Council, created the writing system of her language, St̓át̓imcets, in 1973, by changing the Roman script to represent her language’s sounds. When the writing system was complete, she sent the details to a man in Hawaii, who modified an...2013 June 12, William Brennan, “A Lifeline for Endangered Languages”, in The New Yorker
- Andrew thought of her father, Chief Leonard Andrew, who was seven when he was forcibly taken to the school from his family home near Mount Currie, B.C. Fellow students mocked him on his first day for knowing only Ucwalmicwts, a dialect of St̓át̓imcets.2021 June 11, Rhianna Schmunk, “Catching tears”, in CBC News
- Synonyms:
- Lillooet
Synonyms of St̓át̓imcets
Origin of St̓át̓imcets
Unadapted borrowing from Lillooet St̓át̓imcets.
Questions about St̓át̓imcets
- What does St̓át̓imcets mean?
- St̓át̓imcets means synonym of Lillooet (language).
- What part of speech is St̓át̓imcets?
- St̓át̓imcets is a proper noun.
Words near St̓át̓imcets in the dictionary
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