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Native American groups of modern-day Washington state. Lushootseed is a member of two main divisions of the Salishan language group, Coast Salish and Interior Salish . Lushootseed, like its neighbour Twana , is in the Southern Coast Salish subgroup of the Salishan family of languages. The language was spoken by many Puget Sound region peoples, including the Duwamish , Steilacoom , Suquamish , Squaxin Island Tribe , Nisqually , and Puyallup in the south and the Snohomish , Skagit , and Swinomish in the north. SUBDIVISIONS Lushootseed consists of two dialect groups which can be further divided into subdialects:
The division into Northern and Southern groups is based on vocabulary and stress patterns. More accurately, the dialects form a cline. SOME VOCABULARY Southern Lushootseed Salmonid Vocabulary ; : a word that covers all Pacific salmon and some species of trout. ; : Chinook or King ; : sockeye salmon ; : coho salmon ; : chum salmon ; : the pink salmon ; : steelhead ; : coho season ; : gills ; : nets ; : net fishing ; : spawning season ; : body fat ; : tailfin ; : fillet knife ; : fish dried for storage ; : fish heads ; : dried salmon eggs ; : fresh eggs ; : dried chum ; : fish with a large amount of body fat ; : lightly smoked
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