Samish dialect

E458897

Indigenous language variety dialect

The Samish dialect is a regional variety of the Northern Straits Salish language traditionally spoken by the Samish people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Sooke dialect	1

Statements (38)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indigenous language variety ⓘ dialect ⓘ
associatedWaterBody	Puget Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ Salish Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Lummi dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Saanich dialect ⓘ Songhees dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Sooke dialect ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
endangeredStatus	severely endangered ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Samish Indian Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	glottalized consonants ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ uvular consonants ⓘ
ISO639Macrolanguage	Straits Salish (Northern Straits) NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageBranch	Straits Salish NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageFamily	Salishan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageFamilyHigher	Salishan NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageOf	Samish culture ⓘ
morphologyType	agglutinative ⓘ
partOf	Northern Straits language continuum NERFINISHED ⓘ
primaryDomain	cultural heritage ⓘ
region	Pacific Northwest Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ
revitalizationEffortsBy	Samish Indian Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn	northwestern Washington State ⓘ
state	Washington ⓘ
subdivisionOf	Northern Straits Salish language NERFINISHED ⓘ
subfamily	Coast Salish languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
traditionalSpeakers	Samish people NERFINISHED ⓘ
traditionalTerritory	Fidalgo Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Guemes Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Samish Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ
typology	polysynthetic language ⓘ
usedFor	ceremonial contexts ⓘ place names ⓘ traditional stories ⓘ
wordOrder	flexible word order ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (2)

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

Northern Straits Salish → hasDialect → Samish dialect ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sooke dialect