Wickstrom, Ronald William2024-08-152024-08-1519741974https://hdl.handle.net/1828/20103This thesis consists of a phonemic analysis at the word level of the phonology of Gitksan, a language spoken by the people of the Hazelton, Kiwiox, Kitwanga, and the Skeena Crossing area of British Columbia. The study includes chapters on attestation, allophony, phoneme distribution, distinctive features, and glottalization. The section on glottalization includes reproduced spectrograms of Gitksan Glottalized consonants made on the Kay Electro-Sonagraph at the University of Victoria. Included also are appendices consisting of a word list and a sample text.104 pagesAvailable to the World Wide WebThesis