Híɫzaqvḷa

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Heiltsuk Híɫzaqvḷa.

Proper noun

Híɫzaqvḷa

  1. Synonym of Heiltsuk.
    • 2024, T̕łat̕łaḵuł Patricia Rosborough and Daisy Rosenblum, “Wakashan Languages”, in Carmen Dagostino , Marianne Mithun and Keren Rice, editors, The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America‎[1], volume 2, de Mouton Gruyter:
      The seven languages of the Wakashan family (qʷi·qʷi·diččaq, diitiidʔaaʔtx̣, nuučaan̓uɬ, ‘Uik̓ala, Híɫzaqvḷa, X̄a’islak̓ala-X̄enaksialak̓ala, and Kwak̕wala) are spoken in the Pacific Northwest Coast from qʷi·qʷi·diččaq territory on the Olympic Peninsula extending north across Vancouver Island to Híɫzaqvḷa and X̄a’islak̓ala territories bordering Tsimshian lands.
    • 2021, Jennifer Carpenter, Annie Guerin, Michelle Kaczmarek, Gerry Lawson, Kim Lawson, Lisa P. Nathan, Mark Turin, “Locally Contingent and Community-Dependent Tools and Technologies for Indigenous Language Mobilization”, in Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives‎[2]:
      Through a memorandum of understanding signed in 2016, the Heiltsuk Cultural Education Centre, Bella Bella Community School, and the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program at the University of British Columbia (ubc) are partnering in an effort to collaboratively create new opportunities for speaking, writing, and reading Híɫzaqvḷa (the Heiltsuk language) by expanding existing community language revitalization and cultural documentation in a digital environment. This collaborative mobilization of existing language recordings and archival and cultural resources has resulted in the release of a cross-platform Híɫzaqvḷa unicode keyboard and a beta version of a fully searchable online Híɫzaqvḷa digital dictionary.
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