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5396 (Lushootseed) {
id: 5396 , code_val: "lut, sno, ska ", code_authorities: "", primary_name: "Lushootseed ", alternate_names: "Snohomish, Skagit, Swinomish, Skaǰət ", lang_description: "Lushootseed is a complex of closely related Central Salish dialects spoken in the Puget Sound area of Washington (older sources refer to it as Puget Sound Salish). The principal modern communities in which Lushootseed is the heritage language include the Upper Skagit, Swinomish, Suquamish, Muckleshoot, Puyallup, and Nisqually Reservations, and especially the Tulalip Reservation near Marysville. Lushootseed is now spoken as a first language by fewer than 5 elderly people out of a total population of over 18,000. ", classification: "Salishan; Central Salish ", dialect_varieties: "", public_comment: "Ethnologue (2016) distinguishes 4 Lushootseed languages: Lushootseed [lut], Southern Puget Sound [slh],
Skagit [ska], Snohomish [sno]. ", private_comment: null, source_id: 89800 , speakers: [ { id: 10405 , code_id: 5396 , speaker_number: "10-99 ", speaker_number_text: "10 ", second_language_speakers: null, semi_speakers: null, children: null, young_adults: null, older_adults: null, elders: null, ethnic_population: null, date_of_info: null, public_comment: null, private_comment: null, source_id: 1881 , preferred: 0, }, { id: 18740 , code_id: 5396 , speaker_number: null, speaker_number_text: null, second_language_speakers: null, semi_speakers: null, children: null, young_adults: null, older_adults: null, elders: null, ethnic_population: null, date_of_info: null, public_comment: null, private_comment: null, source_id: 90420 , preferred: 0, }, { id: 30443 , code_id: 5396 , speaker_number: "1-9 ", speaker_number_text: "5 ", second_language_speakers: "", semi_speakers: "", children: "", young_adults: "", older_adults: "", elders: "", ethnic_population: "18,000 ", date_of_info: "2008 ", public_comment: "Lushootseed is now spoken as a first language by fewer than 5 elderly people out of a total population of over 18,000. ", private_comment: null, source_id: 88278 , preferred: 1 , }, { id: 30444 , code_id: 5396 , speaker_number: "100-999 ", speaker_number_text: "<120 ", second_language_speakers: "", semi_speakers: "", children: "", young_adults: "", older_adults: "", elders: "", ethnic_population: "19,150 ", date_of_info: "1977-2007 ", public_comment: "Skagit [ska]: 100 (1977 SIL). Ethnic population: 350 (1977 SIL).
Snohomish [sno]: 10 (1998 J. Brook). Ethnic population: 800 (1977 SIL).
Lushootsheed [lut]: 10 (Watanabe and Sasama 2007), decreasing. Population evenly divided between the northern and southern dialects. Ethnic population: 18,000 (Golla 2007). L2 users: Several L2 speakers, some quite fluent. ", private_comment: null, source_id: 99114 , preferred: 0, }, ], language: { code_id: 5396 , featured: 0, cached_documentation_score: -1 , google_group_url: "", simplified_level: "high ", coordinates: "47.93, -122.14 ", updated_at: "2018-03-25 01:00:49 ", speaker_attitude: "", government_support: "", institutional_support: "", _other_languages_used: "English ", domains_of_use: null, speakers_worldwide: "5 ", second_language_speakers: null, semi_speakers: "", children: "", young_adults: "", older_adults: "", elders: "", ethnic_population: "18,000 ", speakers_worldwide_year: "2008 ", bibliography_of_vitality: "", bibliography_of_context: "88278 ", bibliography_of_locations: "90420 ", user_submission: null, approved: 1 , speakers_int_cache: 5 , has_audio_samples: 0, has_document_samples: 0, has_image_samples: 0, has_guide_samples: 1 , has_video_samples: 1 , search_simplified_level: "CE ", user_id: 1 , code_val_cache: "lut ", has_link_samples: 1 , submission_source_info: null, countries: [ { id: 6 , name: "USA ", pivot: { language_id: 5396 , country_id: 6 , }, }, ], }, }