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Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast

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language of southeast Alaska and western Canada

indigenous language of North America

endangered language spoken in Canada and Alaska

language family

possible language family

language family

pidgin language of northwest North America

language family

Lushootseed ( ), historically known as Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish, or Skagit-Nisqually, is a Central Coast Salish language of the Salishan language family. Lushootseed is the general name for the dialect continuum composed of two main dialects, Northern Lushootseed and Southern Lushootseed, which are further separated into smaller sub-dialects.

language family

subgroup of the Athabaskan language family

Halkomelem ( ; in the Upriver dialect, in the Island dialect, and in the Downriver dialect) is a language of various First Nations peoples of the British Columbia Coast. It is spoken in what is now British Columbia, ranging from southeastern Vancouver Island from the west shore of Saanich Inlet northward beyond Gabriola Island and Nanaimo to Nanoose Bay and including the Lower Mainland from the Fraser River Delta upriver to Harrison Lake and the lower boundary of the Fraser Canyon.

extinct language

Coast Salish language spoken by the Squamish people of southwestern British Columbia

Chinookan language

Salishan language family subgroup of Pacific Nortwestern Indigenous Americans

language of the Saanich people of North America

North Straits Salish

Heiltsuk-Oowekyala

Northern Wakashan (Kwakiutlan) language spoken in British Columbia

Coast Tsimshian

dialect of the Heiltsuk-Oowekyala language

Central Kalapuya

Northern Kalapuya