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Saanich

Saanich is a Native American group from the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington and on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

Saanich or also refers to their language, amember of a dialect continuum called Northern Straits which is a Coast Salishan language. The Northern Straits dialects are closely related to Klallam.

Culture

Language

This section is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by An Outline of the Morphology and Phonology of Saanich, North Straits Salish (1986) (Timothy Montler's site)

Saanich Classified Word List (1991) (Timothy Montler's site)

Bibliography

Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
Montler, Timothy. (1996). Languages and dialects in Straits Salishan. Proceedings of the International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, 31, 249-256.
Montler, Timothy. (1999). Language and dialect variation in Straits Salishan. Anthropological linguistics, 41 (4), 462-502.
Thompson, Laurence; Thompson, M. Terry; & Efrat, Barbara. (1974). Some phonological developments in Straits Salish. International Journal of American Linguistics, 40, 182-196.

Categories: Section stubs | Languages of Canada | Languages of the United States | Salishan languages | Native American languages of the Northwest Coast | Native American tribes | Aboriginal peoples in British Columbia | Endangered languages

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