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Lushootseed language

Lushootseed
Skagit-Nisqually
dxʷləšúcid
Native to Canada, United States
Region Southern British Columbia into Northern Washington
Ethnicity Duwamish, Snohomish, Suquamish, Sammamish, Snoqualmie, Puyallup, Sahewamish, Skagit, Nisqually
Native speakers

no fully fluent native speakers as of 2008 some second-language speakers
Salishan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
lut – Lushootseed
slh – Southern Puget Sound Salish
ska – Skagit (covered by [lut])
sno – Snohomish (covered by [lut])
Glottolog lush1251
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Lushootseed (also: xʷəlšucid, dxʷləšúcid, Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish or Skagit-Nisqually) is the language or dialect continuum of several Salish Native American tribes of modern-day Washington state. Lushootseed is a member of Coast Salish, one of two main divisions of the Salishan language family.

Lushootseed has a complex consonantal phonology, with 41 distinct consonant phonemes. Along with more common voicing and labialization contrasts, Lushootseed has a plain-glotallic contrast, which is realized as laryngealized with sonorants, ejective with voiceless stops or fricatives, and implosive for /b/.

Lushootseed, like its neighbour Twana, is in the Southern Coast Salish subgroup of the Salishan family of languages. The language was spoken by many Puget Sound region peoples, including the Duwamish, Steilacoom, Suquamish, Squaxin Island Tribe, Muckleshoot, Snoqualmie, Nisqually, and Puyallup in the south and the Snohomish, Stillaguamish, Skagit, and Swinomish in the north.


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