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    The Salishan (also Salish; /ˈseɪ.lɪʃ/) languages are a family of languages of the Pacific Northwest in North America (the Canadian province of British...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Thompson language, properly known as Nlaka'pamuctsin, also known as the Nlaka'pamux ('Nthlakampx') language, is an Interior Salishan language spoken in...
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  • 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...
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  • Salishan oral narratives consist of the body of traditional narratives of the speakers of the Salishan languages, who inhabit British Columbia, Canada...
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  • Caron (category CS1 Italian-language sources (it))
    iotation, or postalveolar articulation (c → č; [ts] → [tʃ]). In Salishan languages, it often represents a uvular consonant (x → x̌; [x] → [χ]). When...
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    on Salishan and Neighboring Languages 18: 293-300. Shipley, Dawn (1995). A structural semantic analysis of kinship terms in the Squamish language, Proceedings...
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    Salish, Interior Salish, and Tsamosan, who each speak one of the Salishan languages. The Tsamosan group is usually considered a subset of the broader...
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    known as Kootenay; a language isolate) Mosan Wakashan Chimakuan Salishan Kutenai may possibly be distantly related to the Salishan family, but this link...
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    Secwépemc (category Pages with Salishan languages IPA)
    the Canadian province of British Columbia. They speak one of the Salishan languages, known as Secwepemc or Shuswap. Secwepemcúĺecw, the traditional territory...
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  • Austronesian languages (including Tagalog, Visayan, Pangasinan, Kapampangan, Kadazan Dusun, Hawaiian, Māori, and Tongan). the Salishan languages many Mesoamerican...
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  • member of the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. A voiced fricative sound /ɣ/ may also be heard as a voiced stop [ɡ]...
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  • Salish (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
    Northwest Salishan languages, a group of languages Coast Salish languages Interior Salish languages Bitterroot Salish The Salish-Spokane-Kalispel language The...
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    Salishan languages, including Secwepemcékst and Plateau Sign Language) Northwest Coast cultural area (Haida, Salishan, Tsimshianic, and Wakashan languages, possibly...
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  • Vowel (category Pages with Salishan languages IPA)
    oral languages, phonetic vowels normally form the peak (nucleus) of many or all syllables, whereas consonants form the onset and (in languages that have...
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    adaptation of the Spanish caballo, with the -s ending a noun form in Salishan languages. A variant adaptation, kiuatan, with a Sahaptian -tan ending, is the...
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  • known in the language itself as St̓át̓imcets / Sƛ̓aƛ̓imxǝc ([ˈʃt͡ɬʼæt͡ɬʼjəmxət͡ʃ]), is the language of the St’át’imc, a Salishan language of the Interior...
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  • Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain...
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    or Montana Salish to distinguish it from other Salishan languages, is a Salishan language spoken (as of 2005) by about 64 elders of the Flathead Nation...
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  • Debora Iyall (category Pages with Salishan languages IPA)
    Debora Kay Iyall (/ˈaɪ.ɑːl/; Salishan pronunciation: [ˈʌɪalwahawa];[citation needed] born 29 April 1954), is a Cowlitz Native American artist and was lead...
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  • language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
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    Snohomish, Washington (category Pages with Salishan languages IPA)
    Snohomish is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The population was 10,126 at the 2020 census. It is located on the Snohomish River...
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  • Indian languages sal Salishan languages sem Semitic languages sgn sign languages sio Siouan languages sit Sino-Tibetan languages sla Slavic languages smi...
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    'Altaic' languages. Contrasts with the presence of abundant consonant clusters in Nivkh, as well as in the Indo-European and Salishan languages. Canonically...
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    correspondences between the North Caucasian, Salishan, and Wakashan languages, concluding that Salishan and Wakashan may represent a distinct branch of...
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  • Algonquian languages Caddoan languages Eskimo–Aleut languages Iroquoian languages Na-Dene languages Salishan languages Siouan languages Uto-Aztecan languages Wakashan...
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    the indigenous languages spoken on the reservation is Colville-Okanagan, a Salishan language. Other tribes speak other Salishan languages, with the exception...
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    Hayden Lake. Their native language is Snchitsu'umshtsn, an Interior Salishan language. They are one of the Salish language peoples, which tribes occupy...
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