Okanagan

Salish language spoken in British Columbia, Canada and Washington, United States
Language language Q2984602
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Okanagan

Summary

Okanagan is a language[1]. Okanagan ranks in the top 4% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (95 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Okanagan is in the country of Canada[3].
  • Okanagan is in the country of United States[4].
  • Okanagan's instance of is recorded as language[5].
  • Okanagan's instance of is recorded as modern language[6].
  • Okanagan is a type of Interior Salish[7].
  • Okanagan's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Okanagan language[8].
  • Okanagan's name in native language is recorded as {'lang': 'oka', 'text': 'nsyilxcən'}[9].
  • Okanagan's UNESCO language status is recorded as 3 definitely endangered[10].
  • Okanagan's indigenous to is recorded as Okanagan people[11].
  • Okanagan's indigenous to is recorded as British Columbia[12].
  • Okanagan's indigenous to is recorded as Washington[13].
  • Okanagan's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/OKA[14].
  • Okanagan's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 7 Shifting[15].

Why It Matters

Okanagan ranks in the top 4% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (95 views/month).[2] Okanagan has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Okanagan is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country
    Unesco language status 3 definitely endangered
    Subclass of Interior Salish
    Ethnologue language status 7 Shifting
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007546032305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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