North Straits Salish language

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North Straits Salish
SENĆOŦEN / Malchosen / Siʔneməš / Lekwungen / Semiahmoo / T’Sou-ke
RegionVancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada; Washington, United States
Native speakers
105 (2016 census)[1]
Salishan
  • Coast
    • Central
      • Straits Salish
        • North Straits Salish
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3str
Glottologstra1244
ELPNorthern Straits Salish
Coast Salish language map.svg
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[]

  1. ^ Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics. "Aboriginal Mother Tongue (90)". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
  2. ^ Patterson, Travis (2011-06-01). "Traditional language comes alive on breakwater". Victoria News. Retrieved 2013-06-02.

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