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 ...

Guerin is dedicated to revitalizing hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, the downriver dialect of the Halkomelem language spoken by the Musqueam people. There are fewer than 200 speakers of the Halkomelem language overall ...

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 ...

Launched on July 5 by the First Peoples’ Heritage, Language and Culture Council, the interactive map also lists the number of speakers of languages such as Halkomelem and offers information on ...

In the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleilwaututh First Nations, the most commonly understood Indigenous mother tongue isn't Halkomelem. It's Cree, according to Statistics Canada.

At age 77, Elizabeth Phillips is the last fluent speaker of Halq'emeylem, the language of her Sto:lo people Her knowledge of the language, the word meanings, syntax and pronunciation, is ...