Timothy Montler
Description: Klallam Language
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The Klallam language (nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əmúcən) has since time immemorial been spoken on the north shore of Washington's Olympic Peninsula from the Strait of Juan de Fuca inland into the mountains. It is also native to some other nearby areas such as Becher Bay on the south of Vancouver Island and on some nearby smaller islands. Klallam is one language in a large family of Native American languages called Salishan or Salish languages spoken in what is now Washington, British Columbia, Oregon, Idaho, and Mon
Klallam is closely related to the dialects called Northern Straits: Saanich , Lummi, Samish, Songish, and Sooke. These dialects are native to parts of southern Vancouver Island, the neighboring smaller islands of the Haro and Rosario Straits, and around Lummi Bay in Washington. Although Klallam and the Northern Straits dialects form two distinct, non-mutually intelligible languages, most of the words in Klallam are the same or very similar to words in the Northern Straits dialects. A speaker of Lummi, for e
Timothy Montler