More than thirty languages are spoken by the native people of British Columbia.
This site provides information about these languages, much of it in the form of
bibliographic information and links to other sites containing more detailed information
on particular languages and other relevant topics.
Virtually all of the native languages of British Columbia are endangered: hardly any
are spoken by children, and many have very few speakers at all. We therefore provide
information on the current status of the languages and of documentation for them,
as well as pointers to information on language endangerment and language maintenance and
revitalization.
Announcements
ALDI 2008
The 29th annual American Indian Language Development Institute will be held at the
University of Arizona Wednesday June 4 - Wednesday July 2 2008. Further information is available at
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~aildi.
University of Victoria Certificate Program in Aboriginal Language Revitalization
Four courses are being offered this summer:
Language Revitalization Principles and Practices and
Introductory Linguistics for Language Revitalization in May and June
at the En'owkin Centre in Penticton and
Language Learning and Teaching in Situations of Language Loss
and
Field Methods for Language Preservation and Revitalization
in August at the University of Victoria. More detailed information
is here.
UBC Language Courses
The University of British Columbia's First Nations Languages Program is offering
courses in three languages this year: Musqueam, Plains Cree, and for the first time,
Dakelh. For further information, visit the FNLG
web site or download
the poster.
Louie Family CDs
The CD of the Louie Family Singers singing traditional Carrier songs
is available again.
Northwest Journal of Linguistics
A new journal devoted to the native languages of northwestern North America has
come into existence. It is published only in electronic form:
http://www.sfu.ca/nwjl/.
This site is maintained by the Yinka Déné Language Institute (YDLI). Information provided by
other sources is credited on the relevant page. The YDLI web site
contains information about YDLI and its activities and about the Athabaskan
languages with which YDLI deals, especially Dakelh (Carrier).
Revised 2008-05-09
Please send comments and questions about this site to: webmaster@ydli.org