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Whoever wrote up the Ethnologue classification obviously knew nothing about Salishan language. What an idea, putting Lushootseed, Skagit, Snohomish, the Southern Puget Sound dialects and Twana all on the same level and calling it "Twana"!!! Lushootseed (dxwleshucid) is a name for the mutually intelligible dialects spoken along the eastern and southern shores of the Puget Sound - Skagit and Snohomish are northern dialects, Duwamish, Niqually, Puyallup and Squaxin are southern dialects. Twana on the other hand is a closely related but not mutually intelligible language, and it has far fewer speakers than Lushootseed so calling the grouping "Twana" just makes no sense; a much better term is Southern Coast Salish, as used in the Handbook of North American Indians (vol. 7).

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xwəlšucid is southern Puget sound, dxwləšúcid is northern sound

[edit] Lushootseed orthography

The salmonid terms on this page appear to be taken from the http://www.lushootseed.net/ web page. It should be noted that the spellings rendered here are thus not standard; see the "Spelling and Pronunciation" page on the site. Notably, the lushootseed.net spellings lack characters such as: ə, ƛ, etc. Literal Schmiteral (talk · contribs)

i changed it to fit the standard. of course, it needs to be checked against a dictionary as there are ambiguities – ishwar  (speak) 04:10, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tillicum/Steilacoom

Hi; figured this might be the place to ask if Steilacoom is a Lushootseed name/word, or if maybe it's a "Salishanized" form of Tillicum (i.e. with s- added). They're just so close to each other - Tillicum, Washington and Fort Steilacoom...I mean geogrpahically, as well as phonologically.....Skookum1 (talk) 20:12, 18 April 2008 (UTC)