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Nooksack is spoken by the Nooksack people, who reside primarily along the Nooksack River in Whatcom County, Washington. Linguistically, Nooksack is most closely related to the Squamish, shíshálh and Halkomelem languages, which are all spoken in nearby parts of British Columbia, Canada. Some researchers have questioned whether the Nooksack ...
The Nooksack language (Lhéchalosem) belongs to the Salishan family of Native American languages, and is most similar to the Halkomelem language of British Columbia, of which it was once considered a dialect. Until the mid-20th century, Halkomelem had become the dominant indigenous language of the Nooksack in the United States.
The language was extensively documented and studied by linguists with the aid of tribal elder Vi Hilbert, d. 2008, who was the last speaker with a full native command of Lushootseed. [1] There are efforts at reviving the language, and instructional materials have been published. In 2014, there were only five second-language speakers of Lushootseed.
Nuwhaha. The Nuwhaha (noo-WAH-hah; Lushootseed: dxʷʔaha) [1] were a historical Lushootseed-speaking people in the Skagit River valley of Washington. The Nuwhaha primarily lived along the Samish River, as well as the coastal areas between Bay View and Bellingham. The Nuwhaha were a powerful and warlike people, but smallpox epidemics devastated ...
He conducted linguistic field work with the Haisla language, Upriver Halkomelem (from 1970), and Nooksack (from 1974). In the case of Nooksack and Samish (see below), he worked with the last known surviving fluent speakers. (Since 2002 one person has become a fluent speaker of Nooksack, and there may be 3 or 4 descendants who speak Samish).
The Skagit Range (/ ˈskædʒɪt / SKAJ-it, Nooksack: Nexwx̠ex̠tsán) [1] is a subrange of the Cascade Range in southwestern British Columbia, Canada and northwestern Washington, United States, which are known in Canada as the Canadian Cascades or, officially, the Cascade Mountains. It is also known in the Nooksack language as ...
Nooksack. Nooksack (Nooksack: Noxwsʼáʔaq) or Nootsack may refer to: Nooksack people, an American Indian tribe in Whatcom County, Washington. Nooksack language, the language of this tribe.
Nooksack (/ ˈ n ʊ k s æ k / NUUK-sak) is a city in Whatcom County, Washington, 8 km (5.0 mi) south of the border with Canada. The population was 1,471 at the 2020 census . Despite the name, it is actually located right next to the upper stream of the Sumas River , and is 2 km (1.2 mi) northeast of the nearest bank of the Nooksack River .