Lushootseed

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Lushootseed (also x^wəlšucid, dx^wləšúcid, 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.

Contents

1 Subdivisions
2 Some Vocabulary
3 Southern Lushootseed Salmonid Vocabulary
4 External links

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.

Some Vocabulary

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
sxʷúd^zəʔdaliɬəd: fish with a large amount of body fat
xʷšábús: lightly smoked

External links

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