yəqʷəɬteʔχ
Halkomelem
Alternative forms
- Yéqwelhtax̱, Yéqwelhta (Upriver dialect)
- yuqwulhté'x̌ (Island dialect)
Noun
yəqʷəɬteʔχ
- (Downriver dialect) Lekwiltok
Usage notes
- The Latin characters uppercase Ꭓ U+A7B3 and lowercase ꭓ U+AB53 were added to the Unicode Standard 7.0 and 8.0 released in June 2014 and June 2015 (Delta Code Charts (8.0), Latin Extended-E, Range: A720–A7FF, Delta Code Charts (7.0), Latin Extended-D, Range: AB30–AB6F). Before their adoption, only the Greek character χ U+03C7 was available to represent the letter used in Latin orthographies, yəqʷəɬteʔχ was or is written with the Greek character.
- The Halkomelem Downriver orthography typically only uses lowercase letters.
References
- Burnaby Village Museum (2019), History of Burnaby: Resource Guide[1], City of Burnaby
- Burnaby Village Museum (2019), Indigenous History in Burnaby: Resource Guide[2], City of Burnaby
- Brent Douglas Galloway (2009), Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem[3], volume 1, University of California Press
- David Lewis Rozen (1985), Place-names of the Island Halkomelem Indian people[4], University of British Columbia