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The term "Salish" originated in the modern era as an exonym created for linguistic research. Salish is an anglicization of Séliš, the endonym for the Salish Tribes of the Flathead Reservation. The Séliš were the easternmost Salish people and the first to have a diplomatic relationship with the United States so their name was applied broadly ...
[c] [4] It was proposed by Morris Swadesh that the Olympic branch of Coast Salishan languages is a natural subdivision within the family, although linguists today generally accept the Olympic branch as a subgrouping within the Coast Salish division. [6] The Interior Salish languages have a higher degree of closeness to each other than the more ...
Montana Salish, also known as Spokane-Kalispel-Flathead, Kalispel–Pend d'Oreille language, and Spokane–Kalispel–Bitterroot Salish–Upper Pend d'Oreille. 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).
Category: Interior Salish. 1 language. ... Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (1 C, 4 P) I. Interior Salish languages (10 P) Interior Salish people (5 C, 7 P) N.
Isle-de-Pierre, name conferred by the French Canadian employees of the fur companies, meaning "rock island", perhaps for a band of the tribe. Middle Columbia Salish, so called by Teit (1928) and Spier (1930 b). Sa'ladebc, probably the Snohomish name. Suwa'dabc, Snohomish name for all interior Indians, meaning "inland people," or "interior people."
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes people (6 P) N. Nlaka'pamux people (8 P) S. Secwepemc people (14 P) Syilx people (10 P) Pages in category "Interior Salish people"
Names for the different Salishan plateau languages are based in the land on which they are spoken, and, since colonization and the relocation of Interior Salish families, the differences between these languages are not as well-known today, and a more generalized language has come into use."
[77] [78] The former is the determinant factor for the number of gene lineages and founding haplotypes present in today's Indigenous American populations. [ 77 ] Human settlement of the Americas occurred in stages from the Bering sea coast line , with an initial 20,000-year layover on Beringia for the founding population .