The Coast Salish language, historically spoken by Indigenous peoples around Puget Sound, does not use capital letters. Porter, also known as mali in Lushootseed, will be hosting events on the ...

The Lushootseed alphabet consists of 43 characters, each representing one sound. Eighteen of the sounds do not exist in English, which is why transliterations into Roman letters don’t work ...

"Two!" they shouted. But this lesson wasn't in English. "In Lushootseed!" Martin instructed her class. "Saliʔ!" their tiny voices rang out. Linguists estimate that by the end of the century ...

MARYSVILLE — When twin sisters Alissa and Kelsey Edge found out that Lushootseed language classes were being taught at Marysville Pilchuck High School this year, they had to sign up. The high ...

Jones looked around the Kenny Moses Building on Tulalip Bay on Thursday and saw dozens of tribal children learning words and phrases in Lushootseed, the original language spoken by Salish tribes ...

knew Lushootseed — the language of many Coast Salish Tribes, including the Puyallup Tribe. “She said, ‘Oh, by the way, scapaʔ (grandfather) speaks the Puyallup language. That just blew my mind.

Stevenson noted there are plenty of other locations in the area that have traditional Lushootseed names — almost too many to count. It's important for the names of these locations to be ...

“It is an amazing and wonderful idea to give our waterfront its Lushootseed name again,” said Seattle City Council President Debora Juarez, an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Nation, in a ...