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Columbia Moses language

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Ethnicity
  
230 (2000 census)

Dialects
  
Columbian Wenatchi

Native speakers
  
40 (2007)

Native to
  
United States of America

Region
  
northern Idaho, eastern Washington

Language family
  
Salishan Interior Salish Southern Columbia-Moses

Columbia-Moses, or Columbia-Wenatchi, is a Southern Interior Salish language, also known as Nxaảmxcín. Speakers currently reside on the Colville Indian Reservation

There are two dialects, Columbia (Sinkiuse, Columbian) and Wenatchi (Wenatchee, Entiat, Chelan). Wenatchi is the heritage language of the Wenatchi, Chelan, and Entiat tribes, Columbian of the Sinkiuse-Columbia.

References

Columbia-Moses language Wikipedia