Northern Straits Salish

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Northern Straits Salish is an Indigenous Salishan language traditionally spoken by several Coast Salish communities in the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound region of the Pacific Northwest.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
North Straits Salish 3
Northern Straits Salish canonical 1
Straits Salish 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Coast Salish language
Indigenous language of North America
Salishan language
closelyRelatedTo Hul’q’umi’num’
surface form: Hul’q’umi’num’ language

Klallam language
country Canada
United States of America
surface form: United States
endangeredStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Coast Salish peoples
Lummi people
Pauquachin First Nation
W̱SÁNEĆ people
surface form: Saanich people

Samish people
Stillaguamish people
surface form: Semiahmoo people

Songhees people
Sooke people
Tseycum First Nation
surface form: Tsartlip First Nation

Tsawout First Nation
Tseycum First Nation
glottocode stra1244
hasDialect Lummi dialect
Pauquachin dialect
Saanich dialect
Samish dialect
Semiahmoo dialect
Songhees dialect
Samish dialect
surface form: Sooke dialect

Tsartlip dialect
Tsawout dialect
Tsartlip dialect
surface form: Tseycum dialect
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verb morphology
polysynthetic morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature glottalized consonants
rich consonant inventory
hasSyntacticFeature predicate-initial word order
iso639-3Code str
languageFamily Salishan
languageRevitalization community-based immersion programs
curriculum development in local schools
region Pacific Northwest
Puget Sound
Georgia Strait
surface form: Strait of Georgia
spokenIn British Columbia
Washington State, United States
surface form: Washington State
subgroupOf Northern Straits Salish self-linksurface differs
surface form: Straits Salish
taughtAt tribal language programs in British Columbia
tribal language programs in Washington State
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Coast Salish peoples hasLanguage Northern Straits Salish
SENĆOŦEN belongsToLinguisticArea Northern Straits Salish
this entity surface form: North Straits Salish
Lummi language closelyRelatedTo Northern Straits Salish
this entity surface form: North Straits Salish
Northern Straits Salish subgroupOf Northern Straits Salish self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Straits Salish
Lummi people languageFamily Northern Straits Salish
this entity surface form: North Straits Salish