Oowekyala

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Oowekyala

  1. Dialect of the Northern Wakashan Heiltsuk–Wuikala language cluster, traditionally spoken by the Wuikinuxv around Rivers Inlet in British Columbia in Canada.
    • 2000, Darin Mathew Howe, Oowekyala segmental phonology‎[1], University of British Columbia, page 1:
      The name o f the language of study is Oowekyala /ʔəwik̓ala/. The term apparently consists of the root ʔəwik- ‘back, inland’ and the suffix -k̓ala ‘speech’. The root is also found in the tribal name of the original speakers of Oowekyala: ʔəwik̓inux̌ʷ (-inux̌ʷ ‘tribe’). The latter term, which is also frequently used to designate Oowekyala, has been anglicized in the literature as Oowekeeno (name adopted here, after Hilton & Rath 1982), Oweekeno (McMillan 1999), Oweekano (name of the Band), Owikeno (name of the Lake), Wikeno, Awikenox, etc.
    • 2015, Alessio Muro, ““Lost in translation” between typologically different grammars”, in Emanuele Miola, Paolo Ramat, editors, Language across Languages: New Perspectives on Translation edited, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 51:
      As far as noun incorporation and related phenomena are concerned, Oowekyala and Oneida differ both in terms of the morphological propertties of the constructions available in their grammars and in terms of the referential functions compatible with these patterns.
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