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    Northern Straits Salish (also referred to as North Straits Salish) is a language composed of several mutually-intelligible dialects within the Coast Salish language...
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    The Salishan (also Salish /ˈseɪlɪʃ/) languages are a family of languages of the Pacific Northwest in North America (the Canadian province of British Columbia...
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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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    Timothy. (1996). Languages and Dialects in Straits Salishan. Proceedings of the International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, 31, 249–256...
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  • Straits Salish dialect continuum spoken by the Indigenous Samish people of the Pacific Northwest. Samish is traditionally referred to as a language,...
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  • Lummi dialect (redirect from Lummi Salish)
    (Xwlemi Chosen, IPA: [xʷləmi tʃɔsən]) is a dialect of the North Straits Salish language traditionally spoken by the Lummi people of northwest Washington...
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  • Metathesis (linguistics) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    1986. An outline of the morphology and phonology of Saanich, North Straits Salish. Missoula: University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics No...
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    Songhees (category Coast Salish)
    Mawt Tribal Council. Their traditional language is Lekwungen, a dialect of the North Straits Salish language. There is evidence of a fortified village...
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  • Samish people (category Articles containing Straits Salish-language text)
    The Samish language is a dialect of the Northern Straits Salish (Lkungen) language; a close sister language is Southern Straits Salish (Clallam or Klallam...
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    Lummi people (category Articles containing Straits Salish-language text)
    the Nooksack. The Lummi speak the Lummi language, which is a variety of the Northern Straits Salish language. Although it is typically classed as a dialect...
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