• family. Lushootseed is the general name for the dialect continuum composed of two main dialects, Northern Lushootseed and Southern Lushootseed, which are...
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  • Lushootseed grammar is the grammar of the Lushootseed language, a Central Coast Salish language of the Salishan language family. Lushootseed can be considered...
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  • Preservation Project. Lushootseed language Southern Lushootseed at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Holly Taylor (2010-05-06). "Preserving the Lushootseed language for...
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    Puyallup people (category Pages with Lushootseed IPA)
    The Puyallup (pyoo-A-luhp; Lushootseed: spuyaləpabš, lit. 'people of the bend') are a Lushootseed-speaking Southern Coast Salish people indigenous to the...
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  • Indigenous peoples who speak, or historically spoke, the Lushootseed language. Lushootseed-speaking groups were traditionally politically autonomous...
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    Chief Seattle (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    as an attempt to be more accurate to the Lushootseed pronunciation. There is no "th" sound in the Lushootseed language. Seattle was born between 1780 and...
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    Geoduck (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    derived from the Lushootseed name for the animal, gʷidəq. The etymology of gʷidəq is disputed. The lexical suffix =əq means "many" in Lushootseed. The Oxford...
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    Duwamish people (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    The Duwamish (Lushootseed: dxʷdəwʔabš, [dxʷdəwʔɑbʃ]) are a Lushootseed-speaking Southern Coast Salish people in western Washington, and the Indigenous...
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    Puyallup Tribe of Indians (category Pages with Lushootseed IPA)
    Southern Lushootseed. The Puyallup speak Southern Lushootseed, often also known as Twulshootseed (from txʷəlšucid, the Puyallup name for Lushootseed). Lushootseed...
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    Coast Salish languages (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    (nəxʷsƛ̕áy̓emúcən; also known as Klallam) † Lushootseed † Northern Lushootseed (dxʷləšucid) † Southern Lushootseed (txʷəlšucid, xʷəlšucid; also known as Twulshootseed...
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    Suquamish (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    The Suquamish (Lushootseed: xʷsəq̓ʷəb) are a Lushootseed-speaking Native American people, located in present-day Washington in the United States. They...
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    VERBs] or [VERB+er]. For example, Lushootseed ʔux̌ʷ means '(one that) goes'. The following examples are from Lushootseed. An almost identical pair of sentences...
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  • Tulalip Tribes (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    The Tulalip Tribes of Washington (/tʊˈleɪlɪp/, Lushootseed: dxʷlilap), formerly known as the Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip Reservation, is a federally...
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    Sauk-Suiattle (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    The Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe (Lushootseed: saʔqʷəbixʷ-suyaƛ̕bixʷ; Commonly known as the Sauk-Suiattle Tribe) is a federally-recognized tribe of Sauk...
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    Muckleshoot (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    The Muckleshoot (Lushootseed: bəqəlšuł ) are a Lushootseed-speaking Native American tribe, part of the Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest....
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    Ketron Island, Washington (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    Ketron Island (Lushootseed: saʔilc) is an island and a census-designated place (CDP) in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The island had a population...
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  • from the Lushootseed place–name sqʷax̌səd. Squaxin Island Tribe Bates, Dawn; Hess, Thom; Hilbert, Vi (1994). Lushootseed Dictionary. Lushootseed Research...
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    Shilshole people (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    The Shilshole people (Lushootseed: šilšulabš; also known as the Shilshoolabsh) were a Lushootseed-speaking people whose territory was located around Salmon...
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    Skykomish people (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    The Skykomish (Lushootseed: sq̓ixʷəbš, lit. 'upriver people', IPA: [ˈsqʼexʷ.əbʃ]) are a Lushootseed-speaking Coast Salish people indigenous to the Skykomish...
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    Puget Sound (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    Anglicization of the Lushootseed name for Puget Sound, x̌ʷəlč, which literally means "sea, salt water, ocean, or sound". The name for the Lushootseed language, dxʷləšucid...
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    Carnation, Washington (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    Anglicization of the Lushootseed name for the Tolt River and the Snoqualmie village (variously spelled as tultxʷ, dxʷtultxʷ, or tulq in Lushootseed). Tolt was incorporated...
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    millennia have many names for the mountain in their various languages. Lushootseed speakers have several names for Mount Rainier, including xʷaq̓ʷ and təqʷubəʔ...
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  • Nisqually people (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    subdialect of the southern dialect of Lushootseed (called Twulshootseed), which is a Coast Salish language. In Lushootseed, their name is dxʷsqʷaliʔabš, meaning...
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  • Steilacoom people (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    The Steilacoom people (Lushootseed: č̓tilqʷəbš) are Lushootseed-speaking Southern Coast Salish people, indigenous to the southern Puget Sound region of...
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    Northern Pomo Salishan Coeur d'Alene Columbia-Moses Halkomelem Klallam Lushootseed Nooksack North Straits Salish Okanagan Salish Thompson Twana Cowlitz...
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    Lake Washington (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    Lake Washington (Lushootseed: x̌ačuʔ) is a large freshwater lake adjacent to the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the largest lake in...
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    Seattle (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    areas around Elliott Bay. The name for the modern city of Seattle in Lushootseed, dᶻidᶻəlal̓ič, meaning "little crossing-over place", comes from one of...
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    Swinomish people (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    The Swinomish people (/ˈswɪnəmɪʃ/ SWIN-ə-mish; Lushootseed: swədəbš) are a historically Lushootseed-speaking Native American people in western Washington...
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    Lyman, Washington (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    Lyman Slough (Lushootseed: yət̕ič). Another winter longhouse was located across the Skagit River, at the mouth of Day Creek (Lushootseed: sk̓ʷəb). Lyman's...
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    Gig Harbor, Washington (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    or Homamish (Lushootseed: sxʷəbabš), an ancestral band of the modern-day Puyallup people, have inhabited Gig Harbor, known in Lushootseed as txʷaalqəɬ...
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