Editing Nuxalk language (section)

{{Short description|Salishan language of British Columbia, Canada}}
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{{Cleanup lang|date=October 2024|iso=blc}}{{Infobox language
| name             = Nuxalk
| nativename       = {{lang|blc|ItNuxalkmc}}<ref name="ignace" />
| states           = [[Canada]]
| region           = [[Bella Coola, British Columbia|Bella Coola]] area, [[British Columbia Coast|Central Coast]] region, [[British Columbia]]
| ethnicity        = 1,660 [[Nuxalk]] (2014, [[First Peoples' Cultural Council|FPCC]])<ref name=e18/>
| speakers         = 17
| date             = 2014, [[First Peoples' Cultural Council|FPCC]]
| ref              = e18
| familycolor      = salishan
| fam1             = [[Salishan languages|Salishan]]
| iso3             = blc
| glotto           = bell1243
| glottorefname    = Bella Coola
| notice           = IPA
| altname          = Bella Coola
| map              = Lang Status 20-CR.svg
| mapcaption       = {{center|{{small|Bella Coola is classified as Critically Endangered by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}}
| script           = [[Latin script|Latin]]
}}
{{Infobox ethnonym|root=Nuxalk<br/><small>'''"[[Bella Coola River|Bella Coola Valley]]"'''</small>|people=[[Nuxalk|{{lang|blc|Nuxalkmc|italic=no|nocat=yes}}]]|language='''{{lang|blc|ItNuxalkmc|italic=no}}'''|country=[[Kulhulmcilh|{{lang|blc|Kulhulmcilh|italic=no|nocat=yes}}<br/>(Nuxalkulmc)]]}}
'''Nuxalk''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|n|uː|h|ɒ|l|k}}, {{respell|NOO|holl'k}}), also known as '''Bella Coola''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ɛ|l|ə|.|ˈ|k|uː|l|ə}}, is a [[Salishan language]] spoken by the [[Nuxalk]] people. Today, it is an endangered language in the vicinity of the Canadian town of [[Bella Coola, British Columbia|Bella Coola]], [[British Columbia]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Sarah |last=Williscraft |date=February 13, 2021 |website=Yorkton This Week |url=https://www.yorktonthisweek.com/news/conklin-linguist-one-of-the-last-fluent-speakers-of-endangered-nuxalk-language-1.24279713 |title=Conklin linguist one of the last fluent speakers of endangered Nuxalk language |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213163450/https://www.yorktonthisweek.com/news/conklin-linguist-one-of-the-last-fluent-speakers-of-endangered-nuxalk-language-1.24279713 |archive-date=2021-02-13}} </ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Noisecat |first=Julian Brave |title=The resurgence of the Nuxalk |magazine=Canadian Geographic |date=November–December 2018 |page=19 |url=https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/resurgence-nuxalk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518031827/https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the-resurgence-of-the-nuxalk/ |archive-date=2022-05-18}} </ref> While the language is still sometimes called ''Bella Coola'' by linguists, the native name ''Nuxalk'' is preferred by some, notably by the [[Nuxalk Nation|Nuxalk Nation's]] government.<ref>Suttles, Wayne (1990), "Introduction". In "Northwest Coast", ed. Wayne Suttles. Vol. 7 of ''[[Handbook of North American Indians]]'', ed. William C. Sturtevant, p.15.</ref><ref name="ignace">{{Cite book|last1=Ignace|first1=Marianne|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/989789796|title=Secwépemc people, land, and laws = Yerí7 re Stsq̓ey̓s-kucw|last2=Ignace|first2=Ronald Eric|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP|year=2017|isbn=978-0-7735-5203-6|location=Montreal|oclc=989789796}}</ref>

Though the number of truly fluent speakers has not increased, the language is now taught in both the [[List of school districts in British Columbia|provincial school system]] and the Nuxalk Nation's own school, {{lang|blc|Acwsalcta|italic=no}}, which means "a place of learning". Nuxalk language classes, if taken to at least the Grade 11 level, are considered adequate second-language qualifications for entry to the major B.C. universities. [[CKNN-FM |CKNN-FM Nuxalk Radio]] is also working to promote the language.