sḵwx̱wú7mesh
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "But when Kwetásel’wet (Steph Wood), who is Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, attended public school in North Vancouver, the focus of her history classes was elsewhere."
- "The event, open to the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh community, will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Chief Joe Mathias Centre in West Vancouver."
- "I spent the remaining two hours of our British Columbia drive eagle-eyed, looking for more Indigenous signage. They felt like an invitation to learn more and a reminder that there is deep meaning in all these natural features, and compelled me to dive into a Google rabbit hole where I found a YouTube explainer on pronunciation that treated me to an earful of Sea to Sky Highway roadsigns read by a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh individual."
- "The language school’s philosophy is to create an immersion setting in a homelike environment for babies and their families. Since Sḵwx̱wú7mesh was historically an oral language without a formal writing system, a writing developed over the years, and the current system was adopted officially in 1990."
Etymology
Phrases
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw
Frequently Paired Words
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw