Lummi dialect

Lummi
Lummi
Xwlemi Chosen
Pronunciation	[xʷləmi tʃɔsən]
Region	Pacific Northwest
Ethnicity	Lummi people
Language family	Salishan languages Coast Salish Central Straits Salish North Straits Salish Lummi; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	lumm1243

Lummi (Xwlemi Chosen, IPA: [xʷləmi tʃɔsən]) is a dialect of the North Straits Salish language traditionally spoken by the Lummi people of northwest Washington, in the United States. Although traditionally referred to as a language, it is mutually intelligible with the other dialects of North Straits.

Lummi language is still spoken on the Lummi reservation and is taught at Ferndale High School,^[1] Lummi Nation School, Vista Middle School, Horizon Middle School, Skyline and Eagleridge Elementary Schools,^[2] and the Northwest Indian College.

Phonology

Consonants
		Bilabial	Alveolar			Palatal	Velar		Uvular		Glottal
		Bilabial	central	sibilant	lateral	Palatal	plain	lab.	plain	lab.	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	plain	p	t	t͡s		t͡ʃ		kʷ	q	qʷ	ʔ
Plosive/ Affricate	ejective	pʼ	tʼ	t͡sʼ	t͡ɬʼ	t͡ʃʼ		kʷʼ	qʼ	qʷʼ	ʔ
Fricative				s	ɬ	ʃ		xʷ	χ	χʷ	h
Sonorant	plain	m	n		l	j	ŋ	w
Sonorant	glottalized	ˀm	ˀn			ˀj	ˀŋ	ˀw

Vowels
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid/Open	æ	ə	ɔ

^ Ferndale Native American Education. Archived 2017-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Native American Education - Ferndale School District". Archived from the original on 2021-07-29.
^ Charles, Al; Demers, Richard A.; Bowman, Elizabeth (1978). Introduction to the Lummi language.
^ Montler, Timothy (1999). Language and Dialect Variation in Straits Salishan. Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 1999): Indiana University. pp. 462–502.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

Lummi
Xwlemi Chosen
Pronunciation	[xʷləmi tʃɔsən]
Region	Pacific Northwest
Ethnicity	Lummi people
Language family	Salishan languages Coast Salish Central Straits Salish North Straits Salish Lummi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	`lumm1243`