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Ucwalmícwts (Lower St'át'imc)
The Lil’wat First Nation call their language, Ucwalmícwts. Others have called this dialect Lower St'át'imc because all the communities that speak this dialect live lower on the Fraser River than those who speak the Upper St'át'imc dialect. These dialects are mutually intelligible and all the communities consider themselves to be of one Nation.
State of the Language
"Linguists, working together with Lil’wat have created a writing system with which the Lil’wat community is recording and teaching its language and history. Today, regional schools teach the language to our youth. Additionally, Simon Fraser University in cooperation with Lil’wat offers courses in Ucwalmicwts linguistics. Through our thoughts and actions, we are committed to keeping Ucwalmicwts a living language."1
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