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.
5-467: Quilchena ( Thompson : q̓əłmíx , Okanagan : N̓łəqiłmlx̌ ) is an unincorporated community located on the south shore of Nicola Lake near the city of Merritt , British Columbia , Canada in that province's Nicola Country region. On the former main route between Merritt and Kamloops , it is now largely bypassed since the construction of the Coquihalla Highway . A heritage hotel
10-546: 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
15-417: 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
20-655: Is the main landmark, lately transformed into a small golf resort. The Quilchena Hotel. A cowboy's grand hotel. This article about a location in the Cariboo Regional District , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 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
25-617: 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
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