North Straits Salish language
North Straits Salish | |
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SENĆOŦEN / Malchosen / Siʔneməš / Lekwungen / Semiahmoo / T’Sou-ke | |
Region | Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada; Washington, United States |
Native speakers | 105 (2016 census)[1] |
Salishan
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Dialects | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | str |
Glottolog | stra1244 |
ELP | Northern Straits Salish |
![]() Coast Salish linguistic distribution in the early to mid 1800s. The Northern Straits area is in the center in light red ■. |
North Straits Salish is a Salish language which includes the dialects of
- Lummi (also known as W̱lemi,Ćosen, Xwlemiʼchosen, xʷləmiʔčósən) (†)
- Saanich (also known as Senćoten, sənčáθən, sénəčqən)
- Samish (also known as Si, Námeś, Siʔneməš) (†)
- Semiahmoo (Semyome) (also known as Tah-tu-lo) (†)
- T'sou-ke or Sooke (also known as Z̓owc, Tʼsou-ke, c̓awk) (†)
- Songhees (also known as Leqeṉi, Neṉ, Lək̓ʷəŋín̓əŋ or Lekwungen or Songish), three speakers (2011)[2]
Although they are mutually intelligible, each dialect is traditionally referred to as if it were a separate language, and there is no native term to encompass them all.
North Straits, along with Klallam, forms the Straits Salish branch of the . Klallam and North Straits are very closely related, but not mutually intelligible.
See Saanich dialect for the phonology.
See also[]
- Laurence C. Thompson; M. Terry Thompson; Barbara S. Efrat (1974). "Some Phonological Developments in Straits Salish". International Journal of American Linguistics. 40 (3): 182–196. doi:10.1086/465311. S2CID 144820134.
- Timothy Montler (1999). "Language and dialect variation in Straits Salishan". Anthropological Linguistics. 41 (4): 462–502.
References[]
- ^ Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics. "Aboriginal Mother Tongue (90)". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
- ^ Patterson, Travis (2011-06-01). "Traditional language comes alive on breakwater". Victoria News. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
External links[]
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North Straits Salish language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
Categories:
- North Straits Salish languages
- Coast Salish languages
- Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast
- First Nations languages in Canada
- Indigenous languages of Washington (state)