Semiahmoo dialect

E458898

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

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Semiahmoo dialect canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous language variety
dialect
alignment nominative–accusative
associatedCommunity Semiahmoo Indian Reserve
associatedFirstNation Semiahmoo First Nation
continent North America
country Canada
culturalArea Northwest Coast cultures
ethnicGroup Semiahmoo people
hasTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
languageBranch Coast Salish languages
languageEndangermentCause English language dominance
languageFamily Salishan languages
languageStatus endangered
severely endangered
macroArea Northwest Coast of North America
morphologyType polysynthetic
neighboringVarietyOf Lummi dialect
linked to: Lummi language

Saanich dialect
Samish dialect
Songhees dialect
linked to: Songhees language

Sooke dialect
partOf Northern Straits Salish language
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
rich consonant inventory
primaryProvinceOrState British Columbia
region Pacific Northwest Coast
relatedTo Lummi dialect
Saanich dialect
Samish dialect
Songhees dialect
linked to: Songhees language

Sooke dialect
spokenAlong Strait of Georgia
linked to: Georgia Strait
spokenNear Boundary Bay
Semiahmoo Bay
subdivisionOf Northern Straits Salish language
subfamily Straits Salish
traditionalLanguageOf Semiahmoo people
traditionalSpeakers Semiahmoo people
wordOrder flexible word order
writingSystem Americanist phonetic notation
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

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

Northern Straits Salish hasDialect Semiahmoo dialect