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    Northwest region of northwestern North America. Saanich is a Coast Salishan language in the Northern Straits dialect continuum, the varieties of which are closely...
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    Capital Regional District. The W̱SÁNEĆ language or Saanich dialect is called SENĆOŦEN. This dialect was revitalized by the late John Elliot, an important...
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  • indigenous peoples in British Columbia, Canada the Saanich dialect, a subdialect of North Straits Salish the Saanich Peninsula, a region immediately north of Victoria...
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    The Saanich or W̱sáneć (Saanich:W̱SÁNEĆ, [xʷˈsenət͡ʃ], Xwsenəč) are indigenous nations from the north coast of the Gulf and San Juan Islands, southern...
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  • and James Island by Cordova Passage in Haro Strait. Its name in the Saanich dialect, W̱SÁNEĆ, means "raised up" (when referring to people, that term means...
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  • mountains." Ottawa: The Great Flood Saanich (W̱SÁNEĆ): the W̱SÁNEĆ endonym means "the emerging people" in the Saanich dialect because they survived a great...
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  • distinction while using Latin characters include that used for the Saanich dialect in Canada, which uses majuscule letterforms save for a single suffix...
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  • notation, presumably corresponding to IPA ⟨c⟩, but in others, such as the Saanich dialect of Coastal Salish, Salish-Spokane-Kalispel, and Chemakum, *k went further...
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    as a whole. The dialects of Northern Straits are as follows: (†) marks a dialect that has no native speakers. Lummi Saanich (Saanich: SENĆOŦEN, W̱SÁNEĆḴEN)...
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    main peak. The aboriginal Saanich and Songhees people call the hill PKOLS [pq̕áls], meaning 'white head' in SENĆOŦEN dialect. This hill was a culturally...
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  • Ojibwe language Potawatomi language — A course on Memrise is available. Saanich dialect Seneca language — As of January 2013, a Seneca language app was under...
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    S'Klallam language, a Central Salish language. It is very similar to the Saanich dialect of the Straits Salish language. A grammar book has been published in...
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    the local dialect as something separate from other forms of Inuktitut. In the Nunavik dialect, Inuktitut is called ` (ᐃᓄᑦᑎᑐᑦ). This dialect is also sometimes...
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  • closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect. It is spoken, alongside French and to some extent English, by the Algonquin...
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  • borders on Saanich Inlet, and is connected to a camping area by several trails. The traditional name of the beach is qʷələs in the Saanich dialect. It shares...
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    Piyekwâkamî dialect) ilnu-Aimûn (Western Montagnais, Betsiamites dialect) innu-Aimûn (Eastern Montagnais) Cree is believed to have begun as a dialect of the...
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  • E
    ẹ ę ẻ⟩) to indicate contrasts. Less commonly, as in French, German, or Saanich, ⟨e⟩ represents a mid-central vowel /ə/. Digraphs with ⟨e⟩ are common to...
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    Bangay, or the Red River Dialect) is a dialect of English with substratal influence from Scottish English, the Orcadian dialect of Scots, Norn, Scottish...
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  • as a whole, not just for the Babine dialect. As its name suggests, Babine–Witsuwitʼen consists of two main dialects: "Babine/Nedut'en" spoken by the Babine...
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  • Canada. It is a member of the Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi dialect continuum and is spoken in various dialects depending on the community. Since the 1980s, Innu-aimun...
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    (Litu.aa) to Frederick Sound. The Transitional dialect, a two-tone dialect like the Northern dialect but has phonological features of the Southern, is...
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  • Sinixt (snsəlxcín) is one of multiple distinct dialects of the Colville-Okanagan language. It is part of the Southern Interior Salish sub-grouping of the...
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  • Samish (Xws7ámeshqen, IPA: [xʷsʔ'e.məʃ.qen]) is a dialect of the North Straits Salish dialect continuum spoken by the Indigenous Samish people of the...
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    characterized by a series of dialects that have local names and frequently local writing systems. There is no single dialect that is considered the most...
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  • Oowekyala (redirect from Wuikyala dialect)
    /uːˈwiːkjələ/, also Ooweekeeno and ’Wuik̓ala in the language itself, is a dialect (or a sublanguage) of Heiltsuk–Oowekyala, a Northern Wakashan language...
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  • is that historical *k has become palatalized in many languages, so that Saanich for example has /tʃ/ and /kʷ/ but no plain /k/; similarly, historical *k...
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    (/ˌhɒlkəˈmeɪləm/; Halq̓eméylem in the Upriver dialect, Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓ in the Island dialect, and hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ in the Downriver dialect) is a language of various First...
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    Ottawa or Odawa is a dialect of the Ojibwe language spoken by the Odawa people in southern Ontario in Canada, and northern Michigan in the United States...
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    Bering Strait dialect might also be spoken in Teller on the Seward Peninsula. Qawiaraq dialect: A dialect of Qawiaraq is spoken in Nome. A dialect of Qawariaq...
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  • Canadian French (category Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code)
    Acadians in New Brunswick (including the Chiac dialect) and some areas of Nova Scotia (including the dialect St. Marys Bay French), Prince Edward Island...
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