• 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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  • Project. Lushootseed language Southern Lushootseed at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Holly Taylor (2010-05-06). "Preserving the Lushootseed language for the...
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  • unite all Lushootseed-speaking peoples. Words like (dxʷ)ləšucid ʔacʔaciɬtalbixʷ or ʔacʔaciɬtalbixʷ kʷi gʷədxʷləšucideb (lit. "Lushootseed peoples" or...
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    Puyallup Tribe of Indians (category Lushootseed language)
    Southern Lushootseed. The Puyallup speak Southern Lushootseed, often also known as Twulshootseed (from txʷəlšucid, the Puyallup name for Lushootseed). Lushootseed...
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    Chief Seattle (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    effort to be more accurate to the Lushootseed pronunciation. However, there is no "th" sound in the Lushootseed language. Seattle was born between 1780 and...
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    (nəxʷsƛ̕áy̓emúcən; also known as Klallam) † Lushootseed † Northern Lushootseed (dxʷləšucid) † Southern Lushootseed (txʷəlšucid, xʷəlšucid; also known as Twulshootseed...
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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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    Puyallup people (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Ketron Island, Washington (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    camped on Ketron Island in May of 1792. The island's name in the Lushootseed language is saʔilc, meaning "bad rock." The island was originally named "Kittson...
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  • Steilacoom people (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    name Steilacoom is an anglicization of their Lushootseed endonym. In their native Lushootseed language, their name is č̓tilqʷəbš. The name is derived...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Puget Sound (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    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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  • Nisqually people (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    The Nisqually /nɪsˈkwɔːliː/ are a Lushootseed-speaking Native American tribe in western Washington state in the United States. They are a Southern Coast...
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    Bernie Sanders (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    editorial board's award. On March 20, 2016, he was given an honorary Lushootseed name, dxʷshudičup, by Deborah Parker in Seattle to honor his focus on...
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    Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    publisher (link) Beck, David (January 1999). "Words and Prosodic Phrasing in Lushootseed Narrative". In Hall, Tracy Alan; Kleinhenz, Ursula (eds.). Studies on...
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  • Vi Hilbert (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    traditional culture and of the Lushootseed language, of which she was the last fully fluent heritage speaker. She taught Lushootseed at the University of Washington...
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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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    Glacier Peak or Dakobed (known in the Sauk-Suiattle dialect of the Lushootseed language as "Tda-ko-buh-ba" or "Takobia") is the most isolated of the five...
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    Langley, Washington (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    Langley (Lushootseed: sc̓q̓abac) is a city in Island County, Washington, United States. It sits at the south end of Whidbey Island, overlooking the Saratoga...
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    American mink (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    ma̱tsa Lakota: ikhúsą Lillooet: t̓sexyátsen Lushootseed Northern Lushootseed: bəščəb Southern Lushootseed: c̓əbal̕qid Malecite-Passamaquoddy: ciyahkehs...
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    Monroe, Washington (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    modern-day Monroe and Index. The confluence itself was known as Tualco (Lushootseed: squa'lxo), and a nearby Skykomish village named S'dodohobc acted as...
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    Camano Island (category Articles containing Lushootseed-language text)
    villages: a Kikiallus village at Utsalady (Lushootseed: ʔəcəladiʔ), and a Snohomish village at Camano Head (Lushootseed: x̌ʷuyšəd). Around 1820, a major landslide...
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