Southern Lushootseed | |
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Twulshootseed, Whulshootseed | |
xʷəlšucid (Muckleshoot and Snoqualmie dialects) txʷəlšucid (elsewhere) | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Washington |
Ethnicity | Muckleshoot, Puyallup, Suquamish, Duwamish, Nisqually, Squaxin Island |
Extinct | 4 January 2016, with the death of Ellen Williams[1] |
Revival | exist |
Salishan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | slh |
Glottolog | sout2965 |
![]() Southern Lushootseed | |
Southern Lushootseed, also called Twulshootseed (txʷəlšucid) or Whulshootseed (xʷəlšucid) in the Muckleshoot and Snoqualmie dialects,[2][3] is the southern dialect of Lushootseed, a Coast Salish language in western Washington State.[4] It was historically spoken by the Muckleshoot, Puyallup, Suquamish, Duwamish, Nisqually, and Squaxin Island tribes. The last native speaker was Ellen Williams (1923–2016) and her death rendered the language extinct.[5][6][7]
Whulshootseed is taught at the Muckleshoot Language Program of the Muckleshoot Tribal College in Auburn, Washington, at a local school, and by the Puyallup Tribal Language Program.[8][9][10] A 1999 video, Muckleshoot: a People and Their Language profiles the Muckleshoot Whulshootseed Language Preservation Project.[11]
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