Songhees dialect

Songhees dialect
Lekwungen, Songish
lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ
Native to	Canada, United States
Region	British Columbia, Washington
Native speakers	1 (2018)[1]
Language family	Salishan Coast Salish Central Straits Salish North Straits Salish Songhees dialect
Writing system	NAPA
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(covered in [str] Straits Salish)
Glottolog	song1308
Map of North Straits Salish dialects, with   Songhees in blue.

Lekwungen, Songhees or Songish (Lekwungen: lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ) is a dialect or language of North Straits Salish, a Salishan language spoken by the Lekwungen on Vancouver Island in British Columbia in Canada and on San Juan Island in the State of Washington in the United States. As of 2018, there was only one elderly native speaker of lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ, but there are ongoing movements to revitalize it.^[2]

Orthography

Songhees is written with the lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ phonetic alphabet, or LPA for short,^[2] a version of Americanist phonetic notation, in a language revitalization program called həlitxʷ tθə lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ ("Bringing lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ Language Back to Life") of the Songhees First Nation developed in 2018.

Notes and references

See also

• North Straits Salish language

Bibliography

• Montler, Timothy (1996). "Languages and Dialects in Straits Salishan" (PDF). ICSNL. 31.
• Montler, Timothy (1999). "Language and Dialect Variation in Straits Salishan". Anthropological Linguistics. 41 (4): 462-502. JSTOR 30028724.
• Nolan, Tess (2017). A phonetic investigation of vowel variation in Lekwungen. University of Victoria. hdl:1828/8062.

External links

• Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.^{[This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue]}
• Songish on Glottologue
• Lekwungen dictionary