Timothy Montler is an American

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and

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. Montler is a professor of

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at the

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, as of 2013. He has worked to preserve the Klallam language since 1990. Montler collaborated with Adeline Smith, a Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe elder, to create the first Klallam language

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. He and Smith also composed the world's first Klallam language

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, which was published in December 2012 by the

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. Montler and Smith had collaborated on the Klallam

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throughout the 1990s, 2000–02, and early 2010s. Adeline Smith added 12,000 words and phrases, the largest single contribution to the dictionary. Montler also worked closely with other Native Klallam speakers, including Hazel Sampson, Ed Sampson, and

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American lexicographers Linguists from the United States University of North Texas faculty Klallam Living people Linguists of Salishan languages Linguists of Muskogean languages Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-linguist-stub