Southern Tsimshian, (pronounced: ) or , is the southern dialect of the Tsimshian language, spoken by the

Gitga'ata The Gitga'ata (sometimes also spelled Gitga'at or Gitk'a'ata) are one of the 14 tribes of the Tsimshian nation in British Columbia, Canada, and inhabit the village of Hartley Bay, British Columbia, the name of which in the Tsimshian language is ...

and Kitasoo Tsimshians in Klemtu, B.C. It became extinct with the death of the last remaining speaker, Violet Neasloss. is close to Coast Tsimshian and has been described as a highly conservative dialect, however the two may not have been mutually intelligible with Coast Tsimshian. The name means "the language beside." Specialist John Asher Dunn wrote several articles on the language, from which the term Southern Tsimshian arose.

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