Meanings
- pluralsingularA Salishan indigenous people of the upper Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, centred on the Bute Inlet.
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.
2024 February 5, Jackie McKay, “Graphic novel from Homalco First Nation aims to spark youth interest in traditional teachings”, in CBC NewsSynonyms: Xwémalhkwu, χʷɛmaɬku, χʷɛmaɬkʷu
- Their language, a dialect of mainland Comox.
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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.
2015, John Hamilton Davis, “A Trio of Phonetic Details in Homalco”, in Natalie Weber, Erin Guntly, Zoe Lam, and Sihwei Chen, editors, Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 50, University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics
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nounA Salishan indigenous people of the upper Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, centred on the Bute Inlet.
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Homalco. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Homalco
“Homalco.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Homalco. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Homalco,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Homalco.
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