Columbia-Moses Columbia-Wenatchi |
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Nxaảmxcín | |
Spoken in | United States of America |
Region | northern Idaho |
Ethnicity | 500? |
Native speakers | 75 (1990) |
Language family |
Salishan
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Dialects |
Columbian
Wenatchi
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | col |
Columbia-Moses, or Columbia-Wenatchi, is a Southern Interior Salish language, also known as Nxaảmxcín. Speakers of currently reside on the Colville Indian Reservation
There are two dialects, Columbia (Sinkiuse, Columbian) and Wenatchi (Wenatchee, Entiat, Chelan). Wenatchi is the heritage language of the Wenatchi, Chelan, and Entiat tribes, Columbian of the Sinkiuse-Columbia.