Alternate Names: Okanagan-Colville, Okanagon, Okanogan
Dialects: Sanpoil, Southern Okanogan.
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Demographics: 370 in Canada (2011 census), increasing. Except for 12 fluent speakers on Westbank Reserve, the other reserves each have at least 50 speakers of varying fluency, Vernon Reserve perhaps 100 (Golla 2007). Population total all countries: 770. L2 users: Up to 2,000 L2 speakers in Canada and the United States (Golla 2007).
Language Use: Substantial revitalization efforts (Golla 2007). Speakers 30 and older. Also use English [eng].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 50%. Dictionary. Grammar.
Nation of Origin: Canada