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Tsimshian

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The Tsimshian are an indigenous group located in Canada [1].

Tsimshian

Summary

Tsimshian is a natural language[1]. Tsimshian draws 14 Wikipedia views per month (natural_language category, ranking #326 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Tsimshian is in the country of Canada[3].
  • Tsimshian is in the country of United States[4].
  • Tsimshian's instance of is recorded as natural language[5].
  • Tsimshian's instance of is recorded as modern language[6].
  • Tsimshian is a type of Tsimshianic[7].
  • Tsimshian's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tsimshian language[8].
  • Tsimshian's UNESCO language status is recorded as 5 critically endangered[9].
  • Tsimshian's indigenous to is recorded as British Columbia[10].
  • Tsimshian's indigenous to is recorded as Alaska[11].
  • Tsimshian's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TSI[12].
  • Tsimshian's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 8a Moribund[13].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include natural language[5] and modern language[6]. Tsimshian is a type of Tsimshianic[7].

Why It Matters

Tsimshian draws 14 Wikipedia views per month (natural_language category, ranking #326 of 734).[2] Tsimshian is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

Alaska Canada United States

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] ↑ . 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] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . 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. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Tsimshian language
    Subclass of → Tsimshianic
    Ethnologue language status → 8a Moribund
    Instance of → —
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007553524905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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