Definitions
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- proper noun An endangered
Salishan language spoken by around 60 people mainly inWashington state,USA .
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Examples
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Here in the Puget Sound there is a revival of Lushootseed, not because the state is pushing it, or God forbid the BIA, but because Salish people want it to happen.
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And I gar-on-tee you, Lushootseed is as cryptic a cryptolect as anyone is likely to need.
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The Puyallups and many of the other tribes are pushing Lushootseed in their tribal schools, and the Sklallam and Lummi are doing the same.
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It's not known how many people on the reservation speak Lushootseed, Gobin said.
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He remembers how children there were punished for speaking Lushootseed.
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Today, he finds it sad that he can speak more Japanese phrases he learned during the war than he can the Lushootseed language of his ancestors.
HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News 2010
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Lushootseed videos also show on the tribes 'website and its cable station,
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At the end of each week-long camp, the children stage a play in which lines are delivered both in English and Lushootseed.
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In the 1960s, Thomas Hess, a University of Washington linguistics professor, applied symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet to the previously unwritten Lushootseed language, said Dave Sienko, a Lushootseed media director for the Tulalip Tribes.
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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
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