North Straits Salish languages
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| North Straits Salish | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada; Washington, USA |
| Native speakers | ≈ 20 (date missing) |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | str |
North Straits Salish is a Salish language which includes the dialects of Lummi, Samish, Saanich, Semiahmoo, Songish, and Sooke. Although they are mutually intelligible, each dialect is traditionally referred to as if they were separate languages, and there is no native term to encompass them all.
North Straits along with Klallam form the Straits Salish branch of the Central Coast Salish languages. Klallam and North Straits are very closely related, but not mutually intelligible.
See Saanich language for the phonology.
[edit] References
- 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.
