More specifically, ʔayajuθəm was traditionally spoken in Bute Inlet (also known as Church House), in Squirrel Cove (also known as Cortez Island), and in Sliammon, located in the area now known as Powell River.

Children in daycare and preschool are being taught ʔayajuθəm in schools on Cortez Island, Campbell River (the current city where many of the Homalco people have resettled) and is now being taught in school district #47 (Powell River).

Ethnologue also lists Catlotlq as being ranked at an 8 on the Fishman scale of language loss severity, which reads: "most vestigial users of Xish are socially isolated old folks and Xish needs to be reassembled from their mouths and memories and taught to demographically unconcentrated adults".

Children in daycare and preschool are being taught ʔayajuθəm in schools on Cortez Island, Campbell River (the current city where many of the Homalco people have resettled) and is now being taught in school district #47 (Powell River).

Words often include lexical suffixes referring to concrete physical objects or abstract extensions from them.

It is the only language in the Salish family to have lost the nominalizing prefix s- from its morphological inventory (Kroeber 11).

[13] "Reduplicated counting forms with explicit reference to 'people' can be found in a large number of different Salish languages.

All the basic formal shapes of reduplication in Salish (CVC-, CV-, and –VC) may be used to create the 'people' counting forms."

"[15] CTR:control (volitional) NTR:noncontrol (nonvolitional) tʼuçʼ-ut-asshoot-CTR-3Sbtʼuçʼ-ut-asshoot-CTR-3Sb'he shot it (on purpose), tried to shoot it'tʼuçʼ-əxʷ-asshoot-NTR-3Sbtʼuçʼ-əxʷ-asshoot-NTR-3Sb'he shot it (accidentally), managed to shoot it'The inceptive reduplication of Comox is closely tied to the marking of control.

[16] xʷah-at-uɫtell-CTR-Pastč1sSbtih-ih-at-asbig-VC-CTR-3Sbxʷah-at-uɫ č tih-ih-at-astell-CTR-Past 1sSb big-VC-CTR-3Sb'I told him to make it big' Unknown glossing abbreviation(s) (help);"The durative is used for activities carried out over an extended period or habitually, such as a means of employment" (Mithun 168).

Here is an example of a durative in Comox: xʷuxʷ-mutlong.time-veryʔuɫqʷudig.clamsxʷuxʷ-mut ʔuɫqʷulong.time-very dig.clams'he dug clams for a long time'"An inceptive prefix can mark the gradual, beginning stages of an event or state" (Mithun 169).

Kroeber (1999) confirms this information and expounds upon it by stating, "in all Salish languages, the predicate is most often clause-initial, followed by nominal expressions and prepositional phrases coding participants in the event" (37).

He further notes that prepositional phrases generally represent obliques, leaving subjects and objects unmarked (38).

An example of the uncertainty is the word ʔiɬtən, which can appear as both a noun and a verb, and is identified through the results of its affixation.

[10] In Coast Salish languages, all but Squamish feature subject-predicate mirroring – a sort of clausal concord – in person and number.

[10] Like its fellow Coast Salish languages, Catlotlq utilizes a single preposition, ʔə, to mark the oblique (Kroeber, 45).

Below are two examples: pəqʷs-a-t-asenter.water-LV-TR-3.TR.SUʔə‿tə‿qaʔyaOBL‿ART‿waterpəqʷs-a-t-as ʔə‿tə‿qaʔyaenter.water-LV-TR-3.TR.SU OBL‿ART‿water'He dropped it in the water'hu‿št‿əmgo‿1p.SU.CL‿FUTxapj-a-mireturn-TR-2s.OB(ʔə)‿kʷə‿θ‿tuwaOBL‿ART‿2s.PO‿be.fromhu‿št‿əm xapj-a-mi (ʔə)‿kʷə‿θ‿tuwago‿1p.SU.CL‿FUT return-TR-2s.OB OBL‿ART‿2s.PO‿be.from'We will send you back to where you came from'Interestingly, the oblique marker in these examples also serves a locative purpose, identifying where the object was dropped and the individual's original orientation.

He offers first a list of object pronouns as they appear with transitive roots and then gives examples of each of them in their respective environments.

He first looks at the future tense marked by the morpheme -sʌm, noting that "if the preceding pronoun ends in a [t] the [s] is dropped" (73).