Wakashan languages

Wakashan
Geographic
distribution
British Columbia, Canada
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions
  • Northern
  • Southern
Language codes
ISO 639-2 / 5wak
Glottologwaka1280
Pre-contact distribution of Wakashan languages
Detailed map of pre-contact distribution of the Wakashan languages.

Wakashan is a family of languages spoken in British Columbia around and on Vancouver Island, and in the northwestern corner of the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, on the south side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

As is typical of the Northwest Coast, Wakashan languages have large consonant inventories—the consonants often occurring in complex clusters.