Lushootseed

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Lushootseed

Spoken in

United States
speaker 60 (as of October 2007)
Linguistic
classification

Salish languages

Coastal Salish
Southwest Coast Salish
  • Lushootseed
Official status
Official language in -
Recognized minority /
regional language in 		United States
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

sal

ISO 639-3

lut

Former distribution of the Salish languages ​​in North America

Lushootseed ( xʷəlšucid, dxʷləšúcid , also Puget Salish , Puget Sound Salish or Skagit-Nisqually ) is a language of several Indian tribes culturally belonging to the coastal Salish of the northwest coast culture of the Pacific on Puget Sound and in the adjacent present-day western US state of Washington .

Their language is - next to the Straits Salish idiom ( Northern Straits Salish and Southern Straits Salish (Nəxʷsƛ̕áy̓emúcən / Klallam) the Klallam (S'Klallam) ) and Halkomelem  - one of the largest dialect groups within the Central Coast Salish (Central Coast Salish) from the Salish language family . The language is in turn divided into two large regional dialect groups, which in turn comprise several local dialects, but whose speakers can understand each other. Each of these dialects was traditionally viewed as an independent language by the tribes, so that there is no uniform indigenous term for the Lushootseed dialect group.

The local tribes called (call) the Puget Sound also Whulge (Whulj) , an Anglicization of the Lushootseed name 'WulcH - "salt water". Lushootseed or Whulshootseed / Twulshootseed is made up of two words - from "salt water" and "language" and roughly means "language of the people in the salt water".

The land in which Lushootseed was spoken stretched from today's Bellingham in Washington in the north south to the capital Olympia and from the Cascade Mountains in the east to the Hood Canal in the west - and encompassed the areas of today's cities of Seattle , Tacoma and Everett ( Washington) . Paths through the high mountains led over the Cascade Range, which served as trade routes to the Yakama living on the Columbia Plateau .

Since 2009, the official name of the coastal Salish for the marine area between Vancouver Island and the US state of Washington, including the Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Strait of Georgia , has been the Salish Sea because of the traditionally dominating tribes here .

Lushootseed, like many other Native American languages, is critically endangered, but numerous projects are being developed for children and adults around the Puget Sound to save and revive this language.

Lushootseed talking groups

The Lushootseed is divided into two large dialect groups - the Northern Lushootseed (actually Lushootseed) and the Southern Lushootseed (Whulshootseed / Twulshootseed); The individual groups are listed below, each with the name of their dialect variant:

Northern Lushootseed or Lushootseed (Northern Puget Sound Salish)

Southern Lushootseed or Whulshootseed / Twulshootseed (Southern Puget Sound Salish)

Some lushootseed words

German Lushootseed
Crow Sk'aq
Eagle Yex'ela?
beaver Steqax
Chum salmon Yx'ay?
killer whale Qalqalxic
wolf Stiqayu?
bear Scetx'ed
Rivers Stultulek '
Lakes Calcalel

Remarks

  1. ↑ SIL documentation
  2. ^ Translation of the English article with some additions.

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