Moses-Columbia, or Columbia-Wenatchi, is an extinct Southern Interior Salish language, also known as Nxaảmxcín. Speakers traditionally lived in the Colville Indian Reservation. The Columbia people were followers of Chief Moses.
Phonology
Phonological inventory of the Columbia-Wenatchi dialect: The three vowels in Moses-Columbia are /i/, /a/, /u/. They are sometimes transcribed as [e]; /i/, [o]; /u/, and [æ]; /a/, and could also tend to sound unstressed, almost as a schwa sound, /ə/. == Vocabulary ==
Vocabulary
Here is a Nxaʔamxcín sample word • Snkɬxwpáw’stn = ‘clothesline’ (Czaykowska-Higgins & Willett 1997) == References ==