Lushootseed language
Spoken in
Salish languages
- Lushootseed
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Lushootseed (x ʷ əlšucid, dx ʷ ləšúcid, including Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish and Skagit - Nisqually ) is a language of several culturally to the Coastal Salish of the Northwest Coast culture of the Pacific scoring Indian tribes on Puget Sound and in the adjacent modern western U.S. state of Washington.
Their language is - next to the Straits Salish dialect (Northern Straits Salish and Southern Straits Salish ( Nəx ʷ sƛ̕áy̓emúcən / Klallam ) of the Klallam ( S'Klallam ) ) and Halkomelem - one of the largest dialect groups within the Central Coast Salish (Central Coast Salish ) from the Salish language family. The language is in turn divided into two large regional dialect groups, which include several local dialects, but their speakers are able to understand each other. Each of these dialects was the part of the tribes traditionally regarded as a separate language, so that there is no single indigenous term for the Lushootseed dialect group.
The resident tribes called ( call ) the Puget Sound also Whulge ( Whulj ), an Anglicization of the Lushootseed name ' wulch - " salt water ". Lushootseed or Whulshootseed / Twulshootseed is made up of two words - from " salt water" and "Language" and means " language of the people on salt water."
The land that was spoken in the Lushootseed, stretched from present-day Bellingham in Washington in the north southward to the Olympic and the Cascade Mountains in the east to Hood Canal in the west - and covered the territories of today's cities Seattle, Tacoma and Everett ( Washington). About the Cascade Range paths led through the high mountains that served as trade routes to the living on the Columbia Plateau Yakama.
Since 2009, the official name for the traditionally dominant tribes of the coastal Salish here for the maritime area between Vancouver Iceland and the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Strait of Georgia, Salish Sea.
Also Lushootseed, like many other languages of the Native Americans in danger of extinction, but there are numerous projects for children and adults around the Puget Sound developed to save this language and to revive.
Lushootseed -speaking groups
The Lushootseed is divided into two major dialect groups - the Northern Lushootseed (aka Lushootseed ) and the Southern Lushootseed ( Whulshootseed / Twulshootseed ); listed below are the individual groups, each with the names of their dialect variant:
Northern Lushootseed or Lushootseed (Northern Puget Sound Salish )
- Snohomish ( Sdoh -doh - hohbsh or Sdohobich ) ( Sduhubš or Snohomish dialect, their dialect represents a transition between the Northern and Southern Lushootseed Lushootseed )
- Stillaguamish ( Stoluck -wa- mish ) ( Stillaguamish dialect)
- Lower Skagit ( Subdialekt of Skaǰət - Swinomish or Lower Skagit - Swinomish dialect )
- Swinomish ( Subdialekt of Skaǰət - Swinomish or Lower Skagit - Swinomish dialect )
- Upper Skagit ( Upper Skaǰət dialect)
- Sauk - Suiattle ( Suiaẋbix ʷ or Sauk - Suiattle dialect)
Southern Lushootseed or Whulshootseed / Twulshootseed (Southern Puget Sound Salish )
- Duwamish (Dx ʷ ' Dəw? ABS) (Dii wa'mTsh or Duwamish dialect, once two strains, at least three sub- dialects )
- Kikiallus (Ki Ki Allus ) ( Kikiallus dialect)
- Muckleshoot ( Buklshuhls ) ( Bəpubšł / Bǝqǝlšuɫucid or Muckleshoot dialect)
- Puyallup ( S'Puyalupubsh or Spuyaləqəlpubšut ) ( Subdialekt of Tx ʷ ǝlšucid / Twulshootseed or Puyallup - Nisqually dialect )
- Nisqually ( Squalli - Absh or Sq ʷ aliabš ) ( Subdialekt of Tx ʷ ǝlšucid / Twulshootseed or Puyallup - Nisqually dialect )
- Sahewamish ( Səhiwabš ) ( Səhiwabš Sahewamish or dialect)
- Skykomish ( Skai whamish ) ( Skykomish dialect)
- Squaxin ( Squaxon ) ( Squaxin / Squaxon dialect)
- Snoqualmie ( Sduqwalbixw ) ( Sduq ʷ ʷ Albix or Snoqualmie dialect)
- Steilacoom ( Steilacoomamish or CH'tilQWubSH ) ( č'tilqwəbš / CH'tilQWubSH Steilacoom or dialect)
- Suquamish ( Suqwabš ) ( suq ʷ ABS or Suquamish dialect)