homalco
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Salishan indigenous people of the upper Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, centred on the Bute Inlet.
Example Sentences
- "Alina Pete, who is from Little Pine First Nation in Saskatchewan but lives in Surrey, B.C., is writing and illustrating this story for the graphic novel that is meant to pass down traditional knowledge from Homalco elders."
- "Homalco is the northernmost dialect of the language known in the literature as Mainland Comox. The first speakers who made an impression on me with their style of enunciation were the Homalco speakers Noel George Harry, born in 1892, Bill Galligos, born in 1903, and Jimi Wilson, born in 1945, along with numerous casual speakers from 1969 up to 1980."
Phrases
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