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The Salish or Séliš language, here called Montana Salish to distinguish it from the Salish language family to which it gave
its name, also known as Kalispel–Pend d'oreille and Kalispel–Spokane–Flathead, is a Salishan language spoken (as of 2005)
by about 64 elders of the Flathead Nation in north-central Montana and of the Kalispel Indian Reservation in north-eastern
Washington state, and by another 50 elders (as of 2000) of the Spokane Indian Reservation of Washington. As of 2012, the language
is defined as critically endangered in Montana and Idaho by UNESCO. Dialects are spoken by the Spokane (Npoqínišcn), Kalispel
(Qalispé), Pend d'Oreilles, and Bitterroot Salish (Séliš). The total population was 8,000 in 1977, but most have switched
to English. As with many other languages of northern North America, Salish is polysynthetic; like other languages of the Mosan
language area, there is no clear distinction between noun and verb. Salish is famous for native translations that treat all
lexical Salish words as verbs or clauses in English, for instance translating a two-word clause that what would appear to
mean I-killed a-deer as I killed it. It was a deer. |
Names (more)[en] Kalispel-Pend d'Oreille |
Language type : Living
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