North Straits Salish language

North Straits Salish
SENĆOŦEN / Malchosen / Siʔneməš / Lekwungen / Semiahmoo / T’Sou-ke
RegionVancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada; Washington, United States
Native speakers
105 (2016 census)[1]
Salishan
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3str
Glottologstra1244
ELPNorthern Straits Salish
Northern Straits Salish is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Northern Straits Salish (also referred to as North Straits Salish)[2] is a language composed of several mutually-intelligible dialects within the Coast Salish language family spoken in western Washington and British Columbia. The various dialects of Northern Straits Salish are often referred to as separate languages, both in historic and modern times, and although their similarities are recognized by its speakers, there is no word for the language as a whole.

  1. ^ Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics (28 March 2018). "Aboriginal Mother Tongue (90)". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-05-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Montler, Timothy (1999). "Language and Dialect Variation in Straits Salishan". Anthropological Linguistics. 41 (4): 462–502. ISSN 0003-5483. JSTOR 30028724.