Lushootseed
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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 two main divisions of the Salishan language group, Coast Salish and Interior Salish.
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, Suquamish, Squaxin Island Tribe, Nisqually, and Puyallup in the south and the Snohomish, Skagit, and Swinomish in the north.
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[edit] Subdivisions
Lushootseed consists of two dialect groups which can be further divided into subdialects:
- Northern Lushootseed
- Snohomish (at Tulalip)
- Skagit-Swinomish (on Skagit River and on Whidbey Island)
- Sauk-Suiattle (on Sauk and Suiattle rivers)
- Southern Lushootseed
- Skykomish
- Snoqualmie
- Suquamish
- Duwamish
- Muckleshoot (on Green and White rivers)
- Puyallup
- Nisqually
- Sahewamish
The division into Northern and Southern groups is based on vocabulary and stress patterns. More accurately, the dialects form a cline.
[edit] Some Vocabulary
[edit] Southern Lushootseed Salmonid Vocabulary
- ačədádxʷ
- a word that covers all Pacific salmon and some species of trout.
- sác’əb
- Chinook or King
- x̌ʔəwádxʷ
- Sockeye Salmon
- sq’ə́čqs
- Coho Salmon
- ƛ’xʷáy
- Chum Salmon
- hədúʔ
- the Pink Salmon
- qíw’x̌
- Steelhead
- pədkʷəxʷic
- the Coho season
- sc’áy’t
- gills
- ɬičáʔa
- nets
- ɬičaʔalikʷ
- net fishing
- ʔálil tiʔíɬ ƛ’usq’íl
- spawning season
- skʷəlúb
- body fat
- sč’ət’šáds
- tailfin
- t’áltəd
- fillet knife
- sq’wəlús
- fish dried for storage
- səlúsqid
- fish heads
- qəlx̌
- dried salmon eggs
- ƛ’ə́bƛ’əbqʷ
- fresh eggs
- sɬúʔb
- dried Chum
- sxʷúdzəʔdaliɬəd
- fish with a large amount of body fat
- xʷšábús
- lightly smoked
