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Lushootseed (also xʷəlšucid, dxʷləšúcid, Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish, Skagit-Nisqually) is the language or dialect continuum
of several Salish Native American groups of modern-day Washington state. Lushootseed is a member of Coast Salish, one of the
two main divisions of the Salishan language group. 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, Nisqually, and Puyallup in the south and the Snohomish, Stillaguamish,
Skagit, and Swinomish in the north. Ethnologue quotes a source published in 1990 (and therefore presumably reflecting the
situation in the late 1980s), according to which there were 60 fluent speakers of Lushootseed, evenly divided between the
northern and southern dialects. http://www. ethnologue. com/show_language. asp?code=lut On the other hand, the Ethnologue's
list of United States languages also lists, alongside Lushootseed's 60 speakers, 100 speakers for Skagit, 107 for Southern
Puget Sound Salish, and 10 for Snohomish (a dialect on the boundary between the northern and southern varieties). http://www.
ethnologue. com/show_country. asp?name=US. Some sources given for these figures, however, go back to the 1970s when the language
was less critically endangered. Linguist Marianne Mithun has collected more recent data on the number of speakers of various
Native American languages, and could document that there by the end of the 1990s were only a handful of elders left who spoke
Lushootseed fluently. The language was extensively documented and studied by linguists with the aid of tribal elder Vi Hilbert,
d. 2008, who was presumably the last speaker with a full native command of Lushootseed. There are efforts at reviving the
language, and instructional materials have been published. |
Names (more)[en] Snohomish |
Language type : Living
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