Samish dialect

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The Samish dialect is a regional variety of the Northern Straits Salish language traditionally spoken by the Samish people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Samish dialect canonical 1
Sooke dialect 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous language variety
dialect
associatedWaterBody Puget Sound
Salish Sea
closelyRelatedTo Lummi dialect
linked to: Lummi language

Saanich dialect
Songhees dialect
linked to: Songhees language

Sooke dialect
country United States
endangeredStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Samish Indian Nation
hasPhonologicalFeature glottalized consonants
rich consonant inventory
uvular consonants
ISO639Macrolanguage Straits Salish (Northern Straits)
languageBranch Straits Salish
languageFamily Salishan languages
languageFamilyHigher Salishan
linked to: Salishan languages
languageOf Samish culture
morphologyType agglutinative
partOf Northern Straits language continuum
primaryDomain cultural heritage
region Pacific Northwest Coast
revitalizationEffortsBy Samish Indian Nation
spokenIn northwestern Washington State
state Washington
subdivisionOf Northern Straits Salish language
subfamily Coast Salish languages
traditionalSpeakers Samish people
traditionalTerritory Fidalgo Island
Guemes Island
Samish Bay
typology polysynthetic language
usedFor ceremonial contexts
place names
traditional stories
wordOrder flexible word order
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Northern Straits Salish hasDialect Samish dialect
Northern Straits Salish hasDialect Sooke dialect
linked to: Samish dialect