Interior Salish languages

E492417

Salishan language subgroup language family branch

Interior Salish languages are a branch of the Salishan language family spoken primarily in the interior regions of British Columbia and the northwestern United States by various Indigenous peoples.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Interior Salish languages canonical	10
Northern Interior Salish	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Salishan language subgroup ⓘ language family branch ⓘ
arealFeature	Pacific Northwest linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ
continent	North America ⓘ
family	Salishan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
geographicDistribution	Columbia River Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ Plateau cultural area NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLanguage	Coeur dʼAlene language NERFINISHED ⓘ Columbia-Moses language NERFINISHED ⓘ Colville-Okanagan language ⓘ Flathead language NERFINISHED ⓘ Lillooet language NERFINISHED ⓘ Okanagan language NERFINISHED ⓘ Shuswap language NERFINISHED ⓘ Sinixt language NERFINISHED ⓘ Spokane-Kalispel language NERFINISHED ⓘ Thompson language ⓘ
hasSubgroup	Northern Interior Salish languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Interior Salish languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Salishan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
regionType	interior (inland) regions ⓘ
spokenBy	Coeur dʼAlene people NERFINISHED ⓘ Colville people NERFINISHED ⓘ Flathead (Salish) people NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalispel people NERFINISHED ⓘ Nlakaʼpamux people NERFINISHED ⓘ Okanagan people NERFINISHED ⓘ Secwepemc people NERFINISHED ⓘ Sinixt people NERFINISHED ⓘ Spokane people NERFINISHED ⓘ Stʼatʼimc people NERFINISHED ⓘ Syilx Okanagan people NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn	British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington (state) NERFINISHED ⓘ interior regions of British Columbia ⓘ northwestern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
status	endangered ⓘ
subclassOf	First Nations languages ⓘ Native American languages ⓘ indigenous languages of North America ⓘ
typologicalFeature	complex consonant clusters ⓘ polysynthetic morphology ⓘ predicate-initial word order tendencies ⓘ rich consonant inventories ⓘ
usedFor	ceremonial practices ⓘ daily communication in some communities ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin script (in modern documentation) ⓘ

Referenced by (11)

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

Salishan languages → hasSubfamily → Interior Salish languages ⓘ

Spokan people → languageFamily → Interior Salish languages ⓘ

Nlaka'pamux people → languageFamily → Interior Salish languages ⓘ

Lytton First Nation → languageFamily → Interior Salish languages ⓘ

Boston Bar First Nation → languageFamily → Interior Salish languages ⓘ

Kanaka Bar Indian Band → languageFamily → Interior Salish languages ⓘ

Interior Salish peoples → languageFamily → Interior Salish languages ⓘ

Interior Salish peoples → linguisticBranch → Interior Salish languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northern Interior Salish

Nlaka’pamux Nation → languageFamily → Interior Salish languages ⓘ

Spuzzum First Nation → hasLanguageFamily → Interior Salish languages ⓘ

Secwepemctsín (Shuswap) → subfamily → Interior Salish languages ⓘ

subject surface form: Secwepemctsín