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'''Squamish''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|k|w|ɔː|m|ɪ|ʃ}}<ref>Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student’s Handbook'', Edinburgh</ref> (<small>Squamish</small> ''{{lang|squ|Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchimSníchim}}'' {{IPA-sal|sqʷχʷoʔməʃ snet͡ʃim|}}, ''sníchim'' meaning "language") is a [[Coast Salish languages|Coast Salish language]] spoken by the [[Squamish people]] of southwestern [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]], centred on their [[Indian reserve|reserve communities]] in [[Squamish, British Columbia|Squamish]], [[North Vancouver (district municipality)|North Vancouver]], and [[West Vancouver]]. An archaic historical rendering of the native ''{{lang|squ|Sḵwx̱wú7mesh}}'' is ''Sko-ko-mish'' but this should not be confused with the name of the [[Skokomish people]] of [[Washington (state)|Washington]] state. Squamish is most closely related to the [[Sechelt language|Sechelt]], [[Halkomelem]], and [[Nooksack language|Nooksack]] languages. Because the {{IPA|/ʔ/}} ([[glottal stop]]) character glyph is not found on typewriters and did not exist in most fonts until the widespread adoption of [[Unicode]], the Squamish orthography still conventionally represents the glottal stop with the number symbol ''{{lang|squ|7}}''; of course, the same character glyph is also used as a digit to represent the number seven.