Northern Straits Salish

E101542

Northern Straits Salish is an Indigenous Salishan language traditionally spoken by several Coast Salish communities in the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound region of the Pacific Northwest.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
North Straits Salish 3
Northern Straits Salish canonical 1
Straits Salish 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Coast Salish language
Indigenous language of North America
Salishan language
closelyRelatedTo Hul’q’umi’num’ language
Klallam language
country Canada
United States
endangeredStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Coast Salish peoples
Lummi people
Pauquachin First Nation
Saanich people
linked to: W̱SÁNEĆ people

Samish people
Semiahmoo people
Songhees people
Sooke people
Tsartlip First Nation
Tsawout First Nation
Tseycum First Nation
glottocode stra1244
hasDialect Lummi dialect
Pauquachin dialect
Saanich dialect
Samish dialect
Semiahmoo dialect
Songhees dialect
Sooke dialect
linked to: Samish dialect

Tsartlip dialect
Tsawout dialect
Tseycum dialect
linked to: Tsartlip dialect
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verb morphology
polysynthetic morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature glottalized consonants
rich consonant inventory
hasSyntacticFeature predicate-initial word order
iso639-3Code str
languageFamily Salishan
languageRevitalization community-based immersion programs
curriculum development in local schools
region Pacific Northwest
Puget Sound
Strait of Georgia
linked to: Georgia Strait
spokenIn British Columbia
Washington State
subgroupOf Straits Salish
taughtAt tribal language programs in British Columbia
tribal language programs in Washington State
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Coast Salish peoples hasLanguage Northern Straits Salish
SENĆOŦEN belongsToLinguisticArea North Straits Salish
linked to: Northern Straits Salish
Lummi language closelyRelatedTo North Straits Salish
linked to: Northern Straits Salish
Northern Straits Salish subgroupOf Straits Salish
linked to: Northern Straits Salish
Lummi people languageFamily North Straits Salish
linked to: Northern Straits Salish