North Straits Salish is a
Salish language which includes the dialects of
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Lummi (also known as W̱lemi,Ćosen, Xwlemiʼchosen, xʷləmiʔčósən) ''(†)''
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Saanich (also known as Senćoten, sənčáθən, sénəčqən)
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Samish (also known as Si, Námeś, Siʔneməš) ''(†)''
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Semiahmoo (Semyome) (also known as Tah-tu-lo) ''(†)''
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T'sou-ke or Sooke (also known as Z̓owc, Tʼsou-ke, c̓awk) ''(†)''
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Songhees (also known as Leqeṉi, Neṉ, Lək̓ʷəŋín̓əŋ or Lekwungen or Songish), three speakers (2011)
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
Klallam (also Clallam, although the spelling with "K" is preferred in all four modern Klallam communities) refers to four related indigenous Native American/ First Nations communities from the Pacific Northwest of North America. The Klallam c ...
, forms the
Straits Salish branch of the
Central Coast Salish languages. Klallam and North Straits are very closely related, but not mutually intelligible.
See
Saanich dialect
Saanich (also Sənčáθən, written as in Saanich orthography and pronounced ) is the language of the First Nations Saanich people in the Pacific Northwest region of northwestern North America. Saanich is a Coast Salishan language in the North ...
for the phonology.
See also
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References
External links
An Outline of the Morphology and Phonology of Saanich, North Straits Salish
{{Salishan languages
Coast Salish languages
Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast
First Nations languages in Canada
Indigenous languages of Washington (state)