Meaning of St̓át̓imcets | Babel Free

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Synonym of Lillooet (language).

Examples

“Lorna Williams, the chair of the First Peoples’ Cultural Council, created the writing system of her language, St̓át̓imcets, in 1973, by changing the Roman script to represent her language’s sounds. When the writing system was complete, she sent the details to a man in Hawaii, who modified an electric typewriter so that the language could be typed. The process was painstaking, and it marked a breathtaking technological leap: in the span of two years, St̓át̓imcets went from a language of the tongue to one of the IBM Selectric.”

“Andrew thought of her father, Chief Leonard Andrew, who was seven when he was forcibly taken to the school from his family home near Mount Currie, B.C. Fellow students mocked him on his first day for knowing only Ucwalmicwts, a dialect of St̓át̓imcets.”

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