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A-Z 1023SalishSalishanSalishanLanguage family in western North America with approx. thirty languages; the largestlanguages are Salish and Okanagan in Canada (with about 2,000 speakers each).Characteristics: extremely rich consonantal system (often eight points of articulationand five manners of articulation), including glottalized consonants and pharyngeals; incontrast, a very simple vowel system (typically three vowels+schwa in unstressedsyllables). Noun-verb distinction only weakly evident. A sentence often consists ofseveral smaller predications (example: A bear ate a rabbit is made into threepredications: x ate y, x is a bear, y is a rabbit). Agents are marked as to whether or notthey have control of the action. Polysynthesis, highly developed nominal classification( noun class). Typologically milar si to the neighboring Wakashan languages.ReferencesKinkade, M.D. 1975. The lexical domain of anatomy in Columbian Salish. In M.Kinkade et al.(eds), Linguistics and anthropology in honor of C.F. Voegelin. Lisse. 423–43.Kuipers, A.H. 1967. The Squamish language: grammar, texts, dictionary. The Hague.——1974. The Shuswap language. The Hague.Newman, S. 1976. Salish and Bella Coola prefixes. IJAL 42.228–42.Thompson, L.C. 1979. Salishan and the Northwest. In L.Campbell and M.Mithun (eds), Thelanguages of native America: historical and comparative assessment. Austin, TX. 692–765.BibliographyMattina, A. 1989. Interior Salish post-Vogt: a report and bibliography. IJAL 55.85–94.North and Central American languages