Nicola language
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Nicola is the name of an extinct Athabascan language formerly spoken in the Nicola Valley of British Columbia by the Nicola people. Almost nothing is known of the language. The available material published by Franz Boas required only three pages. What the Nicola called themselves and their language is unknown. The Salishan-speaking Thompson language Indians who absorbed them refer to them as the [stuwix].
So little is known of the language that beyond the fact that it is Athabascan it cannot be classified. Some linguists have suggested that it is merely a displaced dialect of Chilcotin, but the evidence is too skimpy to allow a decision.
[edit] Bibliography
Boas, Franz (1924) "Vocabulary of an Athapascan Tribe of Nicola Valley, British Columbia," International Journal of American Linguistics 3.1.36-38.
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