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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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    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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  • 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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    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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