A school in Vancouver boasts a sign partially written in the Halkomelem language of the Musqueam people. (J.J. McCullough/The Washington Post) Is being forced to use the English alphabet to ...

Halkomelem allows complex sequences of consonants. There is no standard way of representing all dialects of the Halkomelem language. The system we use here is a compromise based on previous ...

UBC has made nine of the campus street signs bilingual in English and Halkomelem, the traditional language of the Musqueam people who considered the site of the university a place of learning long ...

Musqueam spoken-word artist Christie Charles, who speaks Halkomelem — a Coast Salish language spoken by various First Nations — agreed with Seward that land and language are intertwined in ...

In regards to language and culture ... Some languages, like Halkomelem, have a couple of hundred speakers but are still vulnerable to decline. Others, such as Penlatch from Vancouver Island ...

Halkomelem allows complex sequences of consonants. There is no standard way of representing all dialects of the Halkomelem language. The system we use here is a compromise based on previous ...