Witsuwit’en English: language shift and First Nations English in Canada ...

• Main Author: Kinsey, Sonya
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg 2024
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6094/unifr/244110; https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/244110

Witsuwit’en English is a variety of First Nations English (FNE) spoken by the Witsuwit’en people, in several small communities in Northern British Columbia. Despite being widely spoken, FNEs in Canada remain understudied and undervalued, often dismissed as learner Englishes, or assumed to be the res...