Saik'uz teams up with UNBC to preserve language | Prince George Citizen
“Our language is very much endangered,” said Saik’uz cultural coordinator Deborah Page. With many recordings and interviews completed years ago in their traditional language by speakers who have since passed, translators have been difficult to come by. “They’re getting older, and we’re losing them at a very fast rate,” Page said of their language keepers. “Some of the ones that were doing the translations never really learned how to write the language, so we wanted to do a course that would teach the literacy and linguistics of the language.” Because COVID-19 has made i...