North Straits Salish language
| North Straits Salish | |
|---|---|
| Region | Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada; Washington, USA |
Native speakers | 12 (2007–2014)[1] |
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Salishan
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| Dialects |
Samish
Semiahmoo
Sooke
Songhees
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
str |
| Glottolog |
stra1244[2] |
North Straits Salish is a Salish language which includes the dialects of
- Lummi (AKA Xwlemiʼchosen, xʷləmiʔčósən) (†)
- Saanich (AKA SENĆOŦEN, sənčáθən, sénəčqən)
- Samish (AKA Siʔneməš) (†)
- Semiahmoo (SEMYOME) (AKA Tah-tu-lo) (†)
- T'sou-ke or Sooke (AKA Tʼsou-ke, c̓awk) (†)
- Songhees (AKA Lək̓ʷəŋín̓əŋ or Lekwungen or Songish), three speakers (2011)[3]
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, 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 for the phonology.
References
- ↑ North Straits Salish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Straits Salish". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Patterson, Travis (2011-06-01). "Traditional language comes alive on breakwater". Victoria News. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
See also
- Laurence C. Thompson; M. Terry Thompson; Barbara S. Efrat (1974). "Some Phonological Developments in Straits Salish". International Journal of American Linguistics 40 (3): 182–196. doi:10.1086/465311.
- Timothy Montler (1999). "Language and dialect variation in Straits Salishan". Anthropological Linguistics 41 (4): 462–502.
External links
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North Straits Salish language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
- An Outline of the Morphology and Phonology of Saanich, North Straits Salish
- Saanich, North Straits Salish Classified Word List
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