Songhees dialect
| Songhees dialect | |
|---|---|
| Lekwungen, Songish | |
| lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ | |
| Native to | Canada, United States |
| Region | British Columbia, Washington |
Native speakers | 1 (2018)[1] |
Salishan
| |
| 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[edit]
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.
| ʔ | a | c | c̓ | č | č̓ | e | ey |
| əw̓ | h | i | kʷ | k̓ʷ | l | ɬ | ƛ̓ |
| m | n | ŋ | p | p̓ | q | qʷ | q̓ |
| q̓ʷ | s | š | t | t̓ | w | xʷ | x̣ |
| x̣ʷ | y |
Notes and references[edit]
- ^ "lək̓ʷəŋən Language Reawaken". Songhees Nation. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
- ^ a b "lək̓ʷəŋən Language Reawaken". Songhees Nation. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
- ^ "FirstVoices.com". www.firstvoices.com. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
See also[edit]
Bibliography[edit]
- 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.