Saanich
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Saanich is a Native American group from the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington and on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
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Culture
Language
Saanich or , written as SENĆOŦEN in Saanich orthography, also refers to their language, a member of a dialect continuum called Northern Straits which is a Coast Salishan language. The Northern Straits dialects are closely related to Klallam.
Sounds
Consonants
The 35 consonants of Saanich:
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||
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| central | lateral | plain | labial | plain | labial | |||||||
| Stop | plain | |||||||||||
| ejective | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | plain | |||||||||||
| ejective | ||||||||||||
| Nasal | plain | |||||||||||
| glottalized | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | plain | |||||||||||
| glottalized | ||||||||||||
Vowels
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Grammar
Metathesis
In Saanich, metathesis is used as a grammatical devise to indicate "actual" aspect. The actual aspect is most often translated into English as a be ... -ing progressive. The actual aspect is derived from the "nonactual" verb form by a CV → VC metathesis process (i.e. consonant metathesizes with vowel).
- 'shove' (nonactual) → 'shoving' (actual)
- 'scatter' (nonactual) → 'scattering' (actual)
- 'pinch' (nonactual) → 'pinching' (actual)
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Links
- An Outline of the Morphology and Phonology of Saanich, North Straits Salish (http://www.cas.unt.edu/~montler/Saanich/Outline/index.htm) (1986) (Timothy Montler's site)
- Phonology (http://www.cas.unt.edu/~montler/Saanich/Outline/1.htm)
- Morphology (http://www.cas.unt.edu/~montler/Saanich/Outline/2.htm)
- Sample text (http://www.cas.unt.edu/~montler/Saanich/Outline/3.htm)
- Saanich Classified Word List (http://www.cas.unt.edu/~montler/Saanich/WordList/index.htm) (1991) (Timothy Montler's site)
- SENĆOŦEN (Saanich, Northern Straits Salish) (http://www.languagegeek.com/salishan/sencoten.html) (Chris Harvey's Native Language, Font & Keyboard)
- Saanich Indian School Board (http://www.sisb.bc.ca/index3.html)
- SENĆOŦEN Welcome page (http://www.firstvoices.ca/scripts/WebObjects.exe/FirstVoices.woa/3/wa/enterLanguageArchive?archive=3c39bcf779c644e3&wosid=WZ91RL9KfCr5EAIGt5ucig) (First Voices)
See also: Coast Salish.
Bibliography
- Bill, Adriane; Cayou, Roxanne; & Jim, Jacquelin. (2003). NET̸E NEḰA̸ SḴELÁLṈEW̲ [One green tree]. Victoria, B.C.: First Peoples’ Cultural Foundation & L̵ÁU,WELṈEW̲ Tribal School. ISBN 1-4120-0626-0.
- 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.
- YELḰÁTT̵E [Claxton, Earl, Sr.]; & STOLC̸EL̵ [Elliot, John, Sr.]. (1994). Reef Net Technology of the Saltwater People. Brentwood Bay, B.C.: Saanich Indian School Board.