The Thompson language , properly known as Nlaka'pamuctsin , also known as the Nlaka'pamux ('Nthlakampx') language, is an Interior Salishan language spoken in the Fraser Canyon , Thompson Canyon , Nicola Country of the Canadian province of British Columbia , and formerly in the North Cascades region of Whatcom and Chelan counties of the state of Washington in the United States . A dialect distinctive to the Nicola Valley is called Scw'exmx , which is the name of the subgroup of the Nlaka'pamux who live there.
6-574: The Lytton First Nation ( Thompson : ƛ̓q̓əmci̓n ), a First Nations band government, has its headquarters at Lytton in the Fraser Canyon region of the Canadian province of British Columbia . While it is the largest of all Nlaka'pamux bands, unlike all other governments of the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) people, it is not a member of any of the three Nlaka'pamux tribal councils , which are
12-546: A framework of predicates and particles . However, more contemporary work suggests a changing understanding of Salishan grammar. Some Salishanists believe that functional categories are not prescriptive of lexical categories. Work in Functional linguistics suggests that other factors beyond morphological evidence code lexical categories in languages. In Salishan, the distinction would be less overt than in some other languages. One morphological feature of Nlaka'pamuctsin
18-417: Is lexical suffixes . These are words that add nuance to predicates and can be affixed to the ends of root words to add their general meaning to that word. Thompson and Thompson assert that as a result of English language influence, speakers are using these more complex predicates less and less in favor of simpler predicates with complements and adjuncts, resulting in “a general decline in the exploitation of
24-565: Is used with an acute accent; á. Researchers working in the Generative tradition have speculated that Salishan languages lack lexical categories such as nouns and verbs. Evidence for such an absence of contrast between parts of speech in Nlaka'pamuctsin come from a lack of clear morphological markers (e.g. morphemes ) that differentiate nouns and verbs. Instead, generative linguists discuss morphology and syntax in Salishan based on
30-715: The Nicola Tribal Association , the Fraser Canyon Indian Administration and the Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council . The Lytton First Nation figure prominently in the history of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush (1858-1860) and of the associated Fraser Canyon War (1858). At Lytton, then still called Kumsheen , leaders of the miners' regiments from Yale met with the chiefs of the Nlaka'pamux to parley an end to
36-862: The war. While other chiefs argued for annihilation of the outsiders, the Kumsheen chief Spintlum (Cxpentlm, aka David Spintlum) argued for peace, resulting in a series of six treaties known as the Snyder Treaties, which are lost to history. Indian reserves under the governance of the Lytton First Nation are: Download coordinates as: Thompson language Nlaka'pamuctsin is a consonant -heavy language. The consonants can be divided into two subgroups: obstruents , which restrict airflow, and sonorants or resonants, which do not. The sonorants are often syllabic consonants , which can form syllables on their own without vowels . Stress
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