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- adjective Of or like any of the
Salish peoples or their languages.
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Examples
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Klallam is one language in a larger family of Native American languages called Salishan or
The Seattle Times 2010
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Is Chinook Jargon a trade language with Salishan roots?
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Failing that, if Chinook Jargon is something with genuinely Salishan roots, it might be appealing on those grounds.
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Scott Martens at Pedantry is asking:BTW - any readers out there who are experts in Salishan languages?
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I'm trying to find out which Salishan languages, if any, still have a reasonably healthy speaking community e.g., spoken in most households in at least one place and has at least some speakers under the age of 10.
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A person I went to school with, Janna Underinner, is now working with one of the Oregon Coast reservations (it may be the Grand Ronde reservation) to make Chinook wawa their language (I'm a little fuzzy about the exact situation), so your short story would be good, but my impression is that Chinook Jargon is based on Nuuchanuulth which is Wakashan, not Salishan.
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I'm afraid that none of the Salishan languages spoken in Canada can be considered healthy either.
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Were there a relatively healthy Salishan language, that would be the answer.
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Incidentally, is there any particular reason why Scott is interested in Salishan languages specifically, rather than the NW Coastal sprachbund in general?
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As for having Salishan roots, I think there are several theories, but if you go for the English/French contact theory, it can't really.
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