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]

Southern Lushootseed
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
Language family	Salishan Coast Salish Lushootseed Southern Lushootseed
Language codes
ISO 639-3	slh
Glottolog	sout2965
Southern Lushootseed
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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]

See also

• Lushootseed language