Halkomelem (Halq'eméylem) is a Salish language of the First Nations around the Fraser river and the southern end of Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
The word "Halkomelem" is an anglicization for a language with three dialects: Halq'eméylem, the dialect spoken by the upriver Stó:lō of the Fraser Valley, Hun'qumi'num', the dialect of the downriver Stó:lō, and Hul'q'umín'um', spoken by the Nanoose, Nanaimo, Chemainus, Cowichan, and Malahat people of Vancouver Island.
In 1977 Brent Galloway of the University of California at Berkeley compiled the first grammar of Upriver (Chilliwack) Halkomelem and developed the now-official Stó:lō orthography. He is currently working on a Halkomelem dictionary.
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