Lushootseed
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Lushootseed ( ), historically known as Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish, or Skagit-Nisqually, is a Central Coast Salish language of the Salishan language family. Lushootseed is the general name for the dialect continuum composed of two main dialects, Northern Lushootseed and Southern Lushootseed, which are further separated into smaller sub-dialects.
Key facts
- Language.lc2
- ska
- Language.ld2
- Skagit
- Language.lc3
- sno
- Language.ld3
- Snohomish
- Language.name
- Lushootseed
- Language.nativename
- , ,
- Language.states
- United States
- Language.region
- North Western Washington, around the Puget Sound
- Language.ethnicity
- Lushootseed-speaking peoples
- Language.extinct
- 2008, with the death of Vi Hilbert ()
- Language.familycolor
- salishan
- Language.fam1
- Salishan
- Language.fam2
- Coast Salish
- Language.fam3
- Central
- Language.script
- Latin (NAPA)
- Language.lc1
- slh
- Language.ld1
- Southern Lushootseed
- Language.glotto
- lush1251
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- language
- Subclass of
- Coast Salish
- Country
- United States
Show 4 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Lushootseed language
- indigenous to
- Washington
- name
- dxʷləšucid
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Name
- Classification and current status
- Revitalization
- Dialects
- Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Orthography
- Morphology and verbs
- Verb prefixes
- Possession
- Syntax
- Pronouns
- Negation
- Vocabulary
- Sample text
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Language-learning materials
- External links
Lushootseed ( ), historically known as Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish, or Skagit-Nisqually, is a Central Coast Salish language of the Salishan language family. Lushootseed is the general name for the dialect continuum composed of two main dialects, Northern Lushootseed and Southern Lushootseed, which are further separated into smaller sub-dialects.
Lushootseed was historically spoken across southern and western Puget Sound roughly between modern-day Bellingham and Olympia by a number of Indigenous peoples. Lushootseed speakers were estimated to number 12,000 at the peak.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lushootseed” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.