North Straits Salish language

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Northern Straits Salish, and Straits Salish or Straits, is a language of several culturally to the Coastal Salish of the Northwest Coast culture of the Pacific scoring Indian tribes on both sides of the Strait of Georgia, in the south of Vancouver Iceland, on the islands, on the west coast of Canada and in western U.S. state of Washington life.

Their language is - next to Lushootseed and Halkomelem - one of the largest dialect groups within the Central Coast Salish (Central Coast Salish ) from the Salish language family. The language includes several dialects, but their speakers are able to understand each other. Each of these dialects has been traditionally regarded as a separate language and it knows no term, which is identical in all dialects.

First, the Nəx ʷ was sƛ̕áy̓emúcən ( Klallam ) of the Klallam ( S'Klallam ) considered as another dialect, but due to strong differences and because of this, and Northern Straits Salish is not among themselves mutually intelligible applies Nəx ʷ sƛ̕áy̓emúcən ( Klallam ) since then as though closely related, but separate tongue, which is sometimes also referred to as Southern Salish straits.

Northern Straits Salish and Straits Salish Southern together form the Straits Salish idiom of the Central Coast Salish (Central Coast Salish ).

The language is only spoken by some older tribesmen, the dialects of the Ts'ooke, Semiahmoo and Songish are considered extinct. Northern Straits Salish dealing Linguistic taught in Nespelem in the U.S. state of Washington, but the dialect is unknown.

The American linguist Tim Montler examined the Sencoten called Saanich dialect and wrote a dissertation that contains its phonology and morphology, including a list of words.

Northern Straits Salish -speaking groups

The following groups were talking ( talk ) to linguistic point of a dialect of Northern Straits Salish, where the individual tribes / groups indeed related but view each dialect as their own language; listed below are the individual groups, each with the names of their dialect variant:

  • Lummi ( Xwlemi or Lhaq'temish ) ( Xwlemichosen / x ʷ ləmiʔčósən or Lummi dialect)
  • Saanich ( WSÁNEĆ ) ( SENĆOŦEN / Sənčaθən / sénəčqən or Saanich dialect)
  • Samish ( sʔémǝš ) ( Siʔneməš or Samish dialect)
  • Semiahmoo ( Tah -tu -lo or Semiahmoo dialect)
  • T'sou - ke ( Sooke ) ( Tsou - ke, c̓awk Sooke or dialect)
  • Songhees ( Lekwungen / Lekungen ( Lək̓ ʷ əŋín̓əŋ / Lekwungen or Songhees / Songish dialect)
  • Esquimalt ( dining whoy - malth )) ( Lək̓ ʷ əŋín̓əŋ / Lekwungen or Songhees / Songish dialect)
  • Malahat ( Málexeł ) ( Malchosen / Malahat or ( rarely ) from Samish dialect, originally speak the Hulquminum ( Hul'q'umi'num ') dialect of Halkomelem )
Washington (state) Lushootseed language Halkomelem language Saanich people Semiahmoo First Nation Esquimalt First Nation Malahat First Nation Handbook of North American Indians
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