North America · ISO 639-3 blc · Glottocode bell1243
Bella Coola
Bella Coola's reference point lies in North America. Glottolog lists it with nearly extinct status and in the Salishan family, while CLDR suggests Latin.
- Language family
- Salishan
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- nearly extinct
- Macroarea
- North America
- Source country codes
- CA
- Reference point
- 52.345, -126.689
Open research question
How can speaker situation, generational change, and local revitalisation aims for Bella Coola be documented without reading the reference point as a language area?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.