North America · ISO 639-3 tsi · Glottocode nucl1649
Southern-Coastal Tsimshian
For Southern-Coastal Tsimshian, the dataset brings together a reference point in North America, classification in the Tsimshian family, and a likely assignment to Latin.
- Language family
- Tsimshian
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- nearly extinct
- Macroarea
- North America
- Source country codes
- CA · US
- Reference point
- 52.591, -128.545
Open research question
Which regional studies could replace the single reference point for Southern-Coastal Tsimshian with a differentiated account of settlement, movement, and multilingualism?
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.