Talk:Halkomelem

message: I've changed the number of speakers from "less than 12 fluent" to 200
as per the linked estimate at the First Nations Languages of British Columbia site. The figure of 12 probably reflects a misunderstanding of an estimate
for mainland Halkomelem (Upriver and Downriver) as an estimate for
the entire language. Island Halkomelem, that is, basically, Cowichan, has quite a few more speakers.Bill 00:28, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of speakers

message: Hul'q'umin'um, Hul'qumi'num, or Hul'q'umi'num?
I've found various spellings on the internet, all from reliable sources. -- TheMightyQuill 14:22, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  how is hulquiminum spelled? 

message: There is an article named Hul’qumi’num language. I think this article can be replaced by  a #REDIRECT  article toward the Halkomelem language article. Anybody disagrees ? - Arctur 19:25, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not exactly disagreement, but the "third way" is for Halqemeylem, Hunquminum (not sure diacriticals there) and Hul'qumi'num to be separate articles; are they sufficiently different in to warrant separate articles?  Certainly they have different social contexts, i.e. marine culture vs river culture, and the cultural "distance" between the Cowichan area and, say, the Chilliwack or Yale areas.Skookum1 20:00, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

text: They might one day warrant separate articles, but what that article had to offer did not require a separate article. If this article gets to big, we can split. I redirected Hul’qumi’num language here. - TheMightyQuill 16:34, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Hul’qumi’num language]] article

message: Skookum is claiming that the Halkomelem people do not exist, and is move-warring because of it.  References to the Halkomelem people include Donna Gerdts, the principal authority on the Halkomelem language, M. Terry Thompson, who has worked on Salishan languages for half a century, and by Sturtevant (1990).  Now, perhaps they don't know what they're talking about, or don't mean what they say, but it would be nice if intelligent justification were given, rather than a dismissal of anything he disagrees with as ignorant, conspiratorial, or racist.  — kwami (talk) 09:16, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: dredging up old NPAs/AGFs which were in response to your own NPAs/AGFs again, huh?  Do you ever address subjects honestly, instead of trying to make the discussion about your opponent?  As per my comments here that shorthand for "Halkomelem-speaking peoples" is not the same thing as an ethnic group named Halkomelem, or any group who self-identify as such, is what is real; your claim, based on shorthand used by linguistics authors but not in the real world of British Columbia First Nations peoples, is entirely spurious and not in touch with reality.  As with your CANVASS at WikiProject Languages, this is FORUMSHOPPING and....rather pointless.  Googlebooks citations for the language vs any "Halkomelem people" usage are in a 9:1 ratio, making your insinuation that a non-existent people are a parallel primary topic and therefore disambiguation is required when it is not, is just as illogical and off-base as much of your rhetoric and filibustering at WP:NCL.Skookum1 (talk) 09:56, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The people do not exist 

message: Just had a glance at this, and thought the map would be better scaled to BC rather than to Canada. :)
--PeteLambert (talk) 05:36, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Scale of Map 

message: UnderMorphology in the subsection Affixes> Derivational Affixes> Common Artifacts the lexical suffix cited as /-wət/ “canoe” probably should have a voiceless lateral fricative in place of final -t, in keeping with all other Salishan languages which have such a lexical suffix. 108.35.168.107 (talk) 19:50, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misspellings? 

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