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Sqilxw

SKWIL-khw

skwɪlχw

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Sqilxw

Origin: Okanagan/Syilx (Canada)
Meaning: a Syilx name meaning the real people or those who belong to the land; sqilxw is the Syilx people's own name for themselves, used as a personal name to assert identity, rootedness, and belonging to the Okanagan homeland; in a period of sustained effort to revitalise the nsyilxcən language, which is critically endangered, giving a child this name is both a political act of cultural affirmation and a spiritual act of connecting the new generation to thousands of years of relationship with the land, waters, and living beings of the interior plateau
Gender: unisex

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