The Salishan languages (/ˈseɪlɪʃən/ SAY-lish-ən), also known as the Salish languages (/ˈseɪlɪʃ/ SAY-lish), are a family of languages found in the Pacific...

The Coast Salish languages, also known as the Central Salish languages, are a branch of the Salishan language family. These languages are spoken by First...

American and Canadian Pacific Northwest, identified by their use of the Salishan languages which diversified out of Proto-Salish between 3,000 and 6,000 years...

Salishan oral narratives consist of the body of traditional narratives of the speakers of the Salishan languages, who inhabit British Columbia, Canada...

The Interior Salish languages are one of the two main branches of the Salishan language family, the other being Coast Salish. It can be further divided...

Salishan languages, including Secwepemcékst and Plateau Sign Language) Northwest Coast cultural area (Haida, Salishan, Tsimshianic, and Wakashan languages, possibly...

Nivkh language, the Algic languages and the Wakashan languages, also proposed a more remote relationship between these three together and the Salishan languages...

Thompson Language" by Laurence C. Thompson & M. Terry Thompson. Researchers working in the Generative tradition have speculated that Salishan languages lack...

'Altaic' languages. Contrasts with the presence of abundant consonant clusters in Nivkh, as well as in the Indo-European and Salishan languages. Canonically...

Austronesian languages (including Tagalog, Visayan, Pangasinan, Kapampangan, Kadazan Dusun, Hawaiian, Māori, and Tongan). the Salishan languages many Mesoamerican...

being independently innovated in the two languages. Kinkade, Dale (October 2019). "PREHISTORY OF SALISHAN LANGUAGES" (PDF). Retrieved February 11, 2025. Powell...

also known as Cowlitz Salish, is a Tsamosan language of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. It was spoken by the Lower Cowlitz people of...

Bella Coola /ˈbɛlə.ˈkuːlə/, is a Salishan language spoken by the Nuxalk people. Today, it is an endangered language in the vicinity of the Canadian town...

effect. Sanskrit, known for its retroflex consonants compared to the languages that started using its script, uses a system known as retroflex harmony...

the indigenous languages spoken on the reservation is Colville-Okanagan, a Salishan language. Other tribes speak other Salishan languages, with the exception...

on Salishan and Neighboring Languages 18: 293–300. Shipley, Dawn (1995). A structural semantic analysis of kinship terms in the Squamish language, Proceedings...

Spurious languages are languages that have been reported as existing in reputable works, while other research has reported that the language in question...

Missoula (/mɪˈzuːlə/ mih-ZOO-lə) is a city in and the county seat of Missoula County, Montana, United States. It is located along the Clark Fork River...

Skykomish, Snohomish, and the Stillaguamish. The ish ending is from Salishan languages and means "people of". The Puget Sound region was formed by the collision...

Berber languages, some languages of the American Pacific Northwest, such as Nuxalk, and some Northwest Caucasian languages, such as Abaza language. An example...

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iotation, or postalveolar articulation (c → č; [ts] → [tʃ]). In Salishan languages, it often represents a uvular consonant (x → x̌; [x] → [χ]). When...

Canadian portion, while above that the Shuswap people (Secwepemc in their own language) reckon the whole of the upper Columbia east to the Rockies as part of...

Arabic and the Salishan languages of North America, as well as a large vowel system resembling those of Swedish and German. The Chechen language has, like...

Latin versions of lambda were added to Unicode in 2024 for the Salishan and Wakashan languages in Canada. U+039B Λ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA (Λ) U+03BB...

Blue Mountains. The Cayuse called themselves the Liksiyu in the Cayuse language. Originally located in present-day northeastern Oregon and southeastern...

Northwest Salishan languages, a group of languages Coast Salish languages Interior Salish languages Bitterroot Salish The Salish-Spokane-Kalispel language The...

Smohalla (Dreamer) (circa 1815 - 1895) was a Wanapum dreamer-prophet associated with the Dreamers movement among Native American people in the Pacific...

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...

the Canadian province of British Columbia. They speak one of the Salishan languages, known as Secwepemctsín or Shuswap. Secwepemcúĺecw, the traditional...