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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 (/ ˈ n ʊ k s æ k /; Nooksack: Noxwsʼáʔaq) are a federally recognized Native American tribe near the Pacific Northwest Coast.They are a sovereign nation, located in the mainland northwest corner of Washington state in the United States along the Nooksack River near the small town of Deming (in western Whatcom County), and 12 miles south of the Canadian border. [1]
The English name "Lushootseed" is derived from dxʷləšucid. The prefix dxʷ- along with the suffix -ucid means "language." The root word, ləš, is an archaic word for the Puget Sound region. [ 12 ] Some scholars, such as Wayne Suttles, believe it may be an old word for "people," possibly related to the word " Salish."
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 them in ...
Suquamish people traditionally speak a dialect of Lushootseed, which belongs to the Salishan language family. Like many Northwest Coast indigenous peoples pre-European contact, the Suquamish enjoyed the rich bounty of land and sea west of the Cascade Mountains. They fished for salmon and harvested shellfish in local waters and Puget Sound. The ...
Brent Douglas Galloway (8 April 1944 – 6 August 2014 [1]) was an American linguist noted for his work with endangered Amerindian languages, specializing in several of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia. He completed his degrees through a doctorate in linguistics in 1977 at the University of California, Berkeley, undertaking extensive ...
The Coast Salish languages, also known as the Central Salish languages, [1] are a branch of the Salishan language family. These languages are spoken by First Nations or Native American peoples inhabiting the Pacific Northwest, in the territory that is now known as the southwest coast of British Columbia around the Strait of Georgia and Washington State around Puget Sound.
Another example of language change in the Salishan language family is word taboo, which is a cultural expression of the belief in the power of words. Among the Coast languages, a person's name becomes a taboo word immediately following their death. This taboo is lifted when the name of the deceased is given to a new member of their lineage.