‘I can still hear their words’: the fight to save the Híɫzaqv language | Canada | The Guardian
In what is now western Canada, younger generations of the Indigenous Heiltsuk Nation are using social media to revive this ‘deeply relational’ language
While Cree, Anishinaabemowin and Inuktitut still have a relatively large number of speakers, other tongues are on the brink of extinction. Photograph: Alex Takats View image in fullscreen While Cree, Anishinaabemowin and Inuktitut still have a relatively large number of speakers, other tongues are on the brink of extinction. Photograph: Alex Takats Canada This article is more than 1 year old ‘I can still hear their words’: the fight to save the Híɫzaqv language This article is more than 1 year old In what is now western Canada, younger generations of the Indigenous Heiltsuk Nation are using so
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