Southern Lushootseed, also called Twulshootseed () or Whulshootseed () in the

Muckleshoot The Muckleshoot ( lut, bəqəlšuł ) are a Lushootseed-speaking Native American tribe, part of the Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest. They are descendants of the Duwamish and Puyallup peoples whose traditional territory was located a ...

and Snoqualmie dialects, is the southern dialect of

Lushootseed Lushootseed (txʷəlšucid, dxʷləšúcid), also Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish or Skagit-Nisqually, is a language made up of a dialect continuum of several Salish tribes of modern-day Washington state. Lushootseed is one of the Coast Sali ...

, a Coast Salish language in western

Washington State Washington (), officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. Named for George Washington—the first U.S. president—the state was formed from the western part of the Washingto ...

. It was historically spoken by the

Puyallup Puyallup may refer to: * Puyallup (tribe), a Native American tribe * Puyallup, Washington, a city ** Puyallup High School ** Puyallup School District ** Puyallup station, a Sounder commuter rail station ** Washington State Fair, formerly the Puya ...

Suquamish The Suquamish () are a Lushootseed-speaking Native American people, located in present-day Washington in the United States. They are a southern Coast Salish people. Today, most Suquamish people are enrolled in the federally recognized Suqu ...

, Duwamish, Nisqually, and Squaxin Island tribes. The last native speaker was Ellen Williams (1923–2016) and her death rendered the language extinct. Whulshootseed is taught at the Muckleshoot Language Program of the Muckleshoot Tribal College in

Auburn, Washington Auburn is a city in King County, Washington, United States (with a small portion crossing into neighboring Pierce County). The population was 87,256 at the 2020 Census. Auburn is a suburb in the Seattle metropolitan area, and is currently ran ...

, at a local school, and by the Puyallup Tribal Language Program. A 1999 video, ''Muckleshoot: a People and Their Language'' profiles the Muckleshoot Whulshootseed Language Preservation Project.

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The Whulshootseed alphabetPlacenames, Squaxin Island tribePuyallup Tribal Language Program
Whulshootseed learning materials Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast Extinct languages of North America Coast Salish languages Indigenous languages of Washington (state) Native American language revitalization Nisqually {{Washington-stub

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