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Saanich

Saanich is a Native American group from the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington and on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

Saanich or also refers to their language, amember of a dialect continuum called Northern Straits which is a Coast Salishan language. The Northern Straits dialects are closely related to Klallam.

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This section is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by An Outline of the Morphology and Phonology of Saanich, North Straits Salish (1986) (Timothy Montler's site)

Bibliography

  • Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
  • Montler, Timothy. (1996). Languages and dialects in Straits Salishan. Proceedings of the International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, 31, 249-256.
  • Montler, Timothy. (1999). Language and dialect variation in Straits Salishan. Anthropological linguistics, 41 (4), 462-502.
  • Thompson, Laurence; Thompson, M. Terry; & Efrat, Barbara. (1974). Some phonological developments in Straits Salish. International Journal of American Linguistics, 40, 182-196.
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