Interior Salish languages
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| Interior Salish | |
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| Geographic distribution | Canada (British Columbia) and United States (Washington, Idaho, Montana) |
| Ethnicity | Interior Salish peoples |
| Linguistic classification | Salishan
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| Glottolog | inte1241 |
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The Interior Salish languages are one of the two main branches of the Salishan language family, the other being Coast Salish. It can be further divided into Northern and Southern subbranches.
These languages are spoken by the Interior Salish peoples. The first Interior Salish people encountered by American explorers were the Bitterroot Salish (seliš).
Languages
[edit | edit source]Languages with no living native speakers are marked with an obelisk, †.
- Interior Salish
- Northern
- Shuswap, also known as Secwepemctsín and səxwəpməxcín.
- Lillooet, also known as St'át'imcets.[1]
- Thompson River Salish, (nłeʔképmxcín; also known as Nlakaʼpamux, Ntlakapmuk, Thompson Salish, and Thompson.)
- Southern
- Coeur d’Alene, also known as Snchitsuʼumshtsn and snčícuʔumšcn.
- Columbia-Moses †,[a] also known as Columbia and Nxaʔamxcín.
- Colville-Okanagan, also known as Okanagan, Nxsəlxcin, Nsilxcín, Nsíylxcən, and ta nukunaqínxcən.[7]
- Montana Salish, also known as Spokane-Kalispel-Flathead, Kalispel–Pend d'Oreille language, and Spokane–Kalispel–Bitterroot Salish–Upper Pend d'Oreille.
- Northern
The Southern Interior Salish languages share many common phonemic values but are separated by both vowel and consonant shifts (for example k k̓ x > č č' š).
Interior Salish speaking peoples
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Northern
[edit | edit source]- Secwepemc, also known as Shuswap, Secwepemctsín, səxwəpməxcín (ʃəxwəpməxtʃín).[8]
- St̓át̓imc, also known as Stlʼatlʼimx, Stlʼatlʼimc, Sƛ’aƛ’imxǝc (St̓át̓imcets, also known as Úcwalmicwts).[9]
- Nlaka'pamux, also known as Thompson River Salish, Ntlakapmuk, Ntleʼkepmxcín, Thompson River, Thompson Salish, Thompson, known in frontier times as the Hakamaugh, Klackarpun, Couteau or Knife Indians.[10]
Central
[edit | edit source]- Colville, Sinixt (Senjextee, Sin Aikst, or Lakes Band), Sanpoil, Okanagan, and Methow, all of whom speak Nxsəlxcin, nsyilxcən.[11]
Eastern
[edit | edit source]- Spokane, Kalispel, and the Flathead, including the Bitterroot, all of whom speak Montana Salish.
Southern
[edit | edit source]- Sinkiuse-Columbia, Entiat, Wenatchi, and Chelan, all of whom traditionally speak or spoke Columbia-Moses, also known as Nxaảmxcín, Sinkiuse-Columbia, Sinkiuse, Columbia.
- Coeur d'Alene people, also known as Schitsu'umsh or Skitswish (Coeur d'Alene language).
Many speakers and students of these languages live near the city of Spokane and for the past three years have gathered at the Celebrating Salish Conference which is hosted by the Kalispel Tribe at the Northern Quest Resort & Casino.[12]
See also
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[edit | edit source]- ^ Currently undergoing revival.
References
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- ^ Thompson & Thompson 1996, p. 46.
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Bibliography
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Flucke, A. F. Interior Salish. 1952.
- Hanna, Darwin, and Mamie Henry. Our Tellings: Interior Salish Stories of the Nlhaʼkapmx People. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1995. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Orser, Brenda I. L. Stem-Initial Pharyngeal Resonants [Symbol for Central Pharyngeal Fricative, Followed by Symbol for Labialized Central Pharyngeal Fricative], in Spokane, Interior Salish. Ottawa: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1993.
- Pickford, Arthur E. Interior Salish. British Columbia heritage series, v. 3. Victoria, [B.C.]: Province of British Columbia, Dept. of Education, Division of Curriculum, 1971.
External links
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