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Southern Tsimshian dialect

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1-730: Southern Tsimshian , Sgüüx̣s (pronounced: /skiːxs/ ) or Sgüümk , is the southern dialect of the Tsimshian language , spoken by the Gitga'ata and Kitasoo Tsimshians in Klemtu , B.C. It became extinct with the death of the last remaining speaker, Violet Neasloss. Sgüüx̣s is close to Coast Tsimshian and has been described as a highly conservative dialect, however the two may not have been mutually intelligible with Coast Tsimshian. The name Sgüüx̣s means "the language beside." Specialist John Asher Dunn wrote several articles on

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