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Name:
Lushootseed
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Puget Salish; Skagit-Nisqually; Dxʷləšúcid; Puget Sound Salish; Niskwalli; Squaxon; dxʷləšúcid
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
60 (1990 M. Kinkade), decreasing. Population evenly divided between the northern and southern dialects. Ethnic population: 2,000 (1990 M. Kinkade)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
5
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
60
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
lut
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Salishan (Salish)
Parent Subgroup:
Central Salish; Coast Salish (csal)
Child Dialect Groups:
Northern; Northern Lushootseed; Northern Puget Sound Salish; Swinamish; Stillacum (lut-nor)
Southern; Southern Lushootseed; Southern Puget Sound Salish (lut-sou)
Brief Description:
"Lushootseed is a complex of closely related Central Salish dialects spoken in the Puget Sound area of Washington (older sources refer to it as Puget Sound Salish). The principal modern communities in which Lushootseed is the heritage language include the Upper Skagit, Swinomish, Suquamish, Muckleshoot, Puyallup, and Nisqually Reservations, and especially the Tulalip Reservation near Marysville. Lushootseed is now spoken as a first language by fewer than five elderly people out of a total population of over 18,000." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 17
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
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