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North Straits Salish language

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Native speakers
  
12 (2007–2014)

Glottolog
  
stra1244

ISO 639-3
  
str

Region
  
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada; Washington, United States

Language family
  
Salishan Coast Central Straits Salish North Straits Salish

Dialects
  
Lummi Saanich Samish Semiahmoo Sooke Songhees

North Straits Salish is a Salish language which includes the dialects of

  • Lummi (a.k.a. Xwlemiʼchosen, xʷləmiʔčósən) (†)
  • Saanich (a.k.a. SENĆOŦEN, sənčáθən, sénəčqən)
  • Samish (a.k.a. Siʔneməš) (†)
  • Semiahmoo (SEMYOME) (a.k.a. Tah-tu-lo) (†)
  • T'sou-ke or Sooke (a.k.a. Tʼsou-ke, c̓awk) (†)
  • Songhees (a.k.a. Lək̓ʷəŋín̓əŋ or Lekwungen or Songish), three speakers (2011)

    • 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 language Wikipedia
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