St̓át̓imcets

English Etymology en lil St̓át̓imcets. Proper noun en Lillooet language. William Brennan A Lifeline for Endangered Languages 2013-06-12 https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/a-lifeline-for-endangered-languages 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260828044055/https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/a-lifeline-for-endangered-languages 28 August 2026 en Rhianna Schmunk Catching tears CBC News 2021-06-11 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. Related terms St̓át̓imc Lillooet Alternative forms lil Sƛ̓aƛ̓imxǝc NAPA lil Stl'atl'imxets Bouchard spelling Verb lil verb lil van Eijk spelling Speak Lillooet. Usage notes The van Eijk practical spelling St̓át̓imcets uses t̓, c, ts, the Bouchard spelling lil Stl'atl'imxets uses tl', x, ts, the NAPA spelling lil Sƛ̓aƛ̓imxǝc uses ƛ̓, x, c instead. In some works the comma above of the Van Eijk practical spelling and NAPA spelling is on the right of the letter as t' or ƛ': lil St'át'imcets or lil Sƛ'aƛ'imxǝc. Related terms lil St̓át̓imc