Sḵwx̱wú7mesh

Unadapted borrowing from Squamish Sḵwx̱wú7mesh

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sg or pl

1. Squamish
   • 2024 March 1, Christopher Cheung, “A Walk Through Squamish Legends, Lifeways and Histories”, in The Tyee‎^[1]:

     But when Kwetásel’wet (Steph Wood), who is Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, attended public school in North Vancouver, the focus of her history classes was elsewhere.

   • 2024 October 17, Bhagyashree Chatterjee, “Squamish Nation to unveil 25-year roadmap for the future”, in North Shore‎^[2]:

     The event, open to the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh community, will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Chief Joe Mathias Centre in West Vancouver.

   • 2025 March 3, Kathryn Romeyn, “A Sea-to-Sky Highway Road Trip for Indigenous Culture in Whistler and Beyond”, in Condé Nast Traveler‎^[3]:

     I spent the remaining two hours of our British Columbia drive eagle-eyed, looking for more Indigenous signage. They felt like an invitation to learn more and a reminder that there is deep meaning in all these natural features, and compelled me to dive into a Google rabbit hole where I found a YouTube explainer on pronunciation that treated me to an earful of Sea to Sky Highway roadsigns read by a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh individual.

• Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh

1. Squamish language.

   Synonym: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim

   • 2024 March 8, Gordon McIntyre, “Former Kits little yellow schoolhouse reborn as Squamish language centre”, in The Vancouver Sun‎^[4]:

     The language school’s philosophy is to create an immersion setting in a homelike environment for babies and their families. Since Sḵwx̱wú7mesh was historically an oral language without a formal writing system, a writing developed over the years, and the current system was adopted officially in 1990.

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• IPA^(key): [sqʷχʷuʔməʃ]

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Sḵwx̱wú7mesh

1. Squamish (indigenous people)

• Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh

1. Squamish (a district municipality in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada).

• Aert H. Kuipers (1967), “s-qx̆°uˈʔ-miš”, in The Squamish Language: Grammar, Texts, Dictionary (Janua Linguarum, Series Practica; 73), The Hague/Paris: Mouton & Co., page 295