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Language Needs Assessment: Ehattesaht Chinakhint Tribe
Funding Applcation: Aboriginal Languages Initiative (ALI)
Assessment Year: 2011/2012
Language: Nuučaan̓uɫ
Dialect: ʔiiḥatisatḥ nučatlatḥ
Organization
Ehattesaht Chinakhint Tribe
hiikʷusiinupšił aka: Victoria Wells, Contract Language Co-ordinator
This project will serve the following communities:
Community Population
| Date of community's recent population poll: |
2011, January |
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| Population on reserve: |
150 |
| Population off reserve: |
231 |
| Total Population: |
381 |
| Information Source: |
Membership Clerk, Ehattesaht Tribal Office |
| Not all our on reserve population live at our main village of ʔiiḥatis. Our ̓on reserve' population includes those living on other Nuu chah nulth reserves or main villages. Our definition of community is not confined to who lives on reserve, but rather who do we have family ties with. |
Community Language Fluency
| Number that speak and understand language fluently |
13 |
| Age groups that speak the language fluently |
45-54 (2), 55-64 (3), 65-74 (8)
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| Number that understand and/or speak somewhat |
6 |
| Age groups who understand and/or speak somewhat |
25-44 (1), 45-54 (4), 55-64 (1)
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| Number that do not speak or understand the language |
362 |
| Number of people learning the language |
30 |
| Age groups that are learning the language |
5-14 (17), 15-19 (4), 20-24 (3), 25-44 (2), 45-54 (2), 55-64 (2)
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