Interior Salish languages

{{main|Salish languages}}Languages with no living native speakers are marked with an obelisk, {{extinct}}.

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• Salish
• Northern
• Shuswap, also known as Secwepemctsín and səxwəpməxcín.
• Lillooet, also known as St'át'imcets.{{Cite journal |last1=Matthewson |first1=Lisa |last2=Davis |first2=Henry |last3=Rullmann |first3=Hotze |date=2007-12-31 |title=Evidentials as epistemic modals: Evidence from St'át'imcets |url=http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/livy.7.07mat |journal=Linguistic Variation Yearbook |language=en |volume=7 |pages=201–254 |doi=10.1075/livy.7.07mat |issn=1568-1483}}
• Thompson River Salish, ({{lang|thp|nłeʔképmxcín}}; also known as Nlakaʼpamux, Ntlakapmuk, Thompson Salish, and Thompson.)
• Spuzzum dialect, also called Lower Thompson ({{lang|thp|spəzm̓mxcín}}){{Sfn|Thompson|Thompson|1996|p=237}}
• {{lang|thp|sƛ̓eyéxʷcín}}{{Cite book |last1=Egesdal |first1=Steven M. |title=Nl̳ekèpmxcín: Thompson River Salish speech |last2=Thompson |first2=M. Terry |last3=Jimmie |first3=Mandy N. |date=2011 |publisher=Whatcom Museum |isbn=978-1-879763-22-7 |series=Whatcom museum publications |location=Bellingham, WA|page=6}}
• {{lang|thp|nk̓əmcínxcín}}{{Cite book |last1=Egesdal |first1=Steven M. |title=Nl̳ekèpmxcín: Thompson River Salish speech |last2=Thompson |first2=M. Terry |last3=Jimmie |first3=Mandy N. |date=2011 |publisher=Whatcom Museum |isbn=978-1-879763-22-7 |series=Whatcom museum publications |location=Bellingham, WA |page=6}}
• Nicola dialect ({{lang|thp|scw̓exmcín}}){{Cite book |last1=Egesdal |first1=Steven M. |title=Nl̳ekèpmxcín: Thompson River Salish speech |last2=Thompson |first2=M. Terry |last3=Jimmie |first3=Mandy N. |date=2011 |publisher=Whatcom Museum |isbn=978-1-879763-22-7 |series=Whatcom museum publications |location=Bellingham, WA |page=6}}{{Sfn|Thompson|Thompson|1996|p=46}}
• Southern
• Coeur d’Alene, also known as Snchitsuʼumshtsn and snčícuʔumšcn.
• Columbia-Moses {{extinct}},{{efn|Currently undergoing revival.|name=rev1}} also known as Columbia and Nxaʔamxcín.
• Colville-Okanagan, also known as Okanagan, Nxsəlxcin, Nsilxcín, Nsíylxcən, and ta nukunaqínxcən.{{Cite web |title=Sharing One Skin |url=https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/sharing-one-skin |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=www.culturalsurvival.org |date=9 June 2010 |language=en}}
• Montana Salish, also known as Spokane-Kalispel-Flathead, Kalispel–Pend d'Oreille language, and Spokane–Kalispel–Bitterroot Salish–Upper Pend d'Oreille.

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The Southern Interior Salish languages share many common phonemic values but are separated by both vowel and consonant shifts (for example k k̓ x > č č' š).

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• Secwepemc, also known as Shuswap, Secwepemctsín, səxwəpməxcín (ʃəxwəpməxtʃín).{{Cite journal |last1=Lacho |first1=David Dennison |last2=Leon |first2=Aaron |date=2017-07-31 |title="Please mom? Can you please download it at home?": Video Games as a Symbol of Linguistic Survivance |url=https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/248 |journal=Transmotion |language=en |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=70 |doi=10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.248 |issn=2059-0911}}
• St̓át̓imc, also known as Stlʼatlʼimx, Stlʼatlʼimc, Sƛ’aƛ’imxǝc (St̓át̓imcets, also known as Úcwalmicwts).{{Cite book |last=Matthewson |first=Lisa |title=When I Was Small - I Wan Kwikws A Grammatical Analysis of St'át'imc Oral Narratives |date=2005 |publisher=UBC Press |isbn= 978-0774810906 |location=Vancouver, BC, Canada |pages=6}}
• Nlaka'pamux, also known as Thompson River Salish, Ntlakapmuk, Ntleʼkepmxcín, Thompson River, Thompson Salish, Thompson, known in frontier times as the Hakamaugh, Klackarpun, Couteau or Knife Indians.{{Cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Laurence C. |title=The Thompson language |last2=Thompson |first2=M. Terry |date=1992 |publisher=UMOPL |isbn=978-1-879763-08-1 |edition=1. publ |series=University of Montana occasional papers in linguistics |location=Missoula, MT}}

• Colville, Sinixt (Senjextee, Sin Aikst, or Lakes Band), Sanpoil, Okanagan, and Methow, all of whom speak Nxsəlxcin, nsyilxcən.{{Cite web |title=nsyilxcən Language – Okanagan Nation Alliance |url=https://syilx.org/about-us/syilx-nation/nsyilxen-language/ |access-date=2025-02-07 |language=en-US}}

• Spokane, Kalispel, and the Flathead, including the Bitterroot, all of whom speak Montana Salish.

• Sinkiuse-Columbia, Entiat, Wenatchi, and Chelan, all of whom traditionally speak or spoke Columbia-Moses, also known as Nxaảmxcín, Sinkiuse-Columbia, Sinkiuse, Columbia.
• Coeur d'Alene people, also known as Schitsu'umsh or Skitswish (Coeur d'Alene language).

Many speakers and students of these languages live near the city of Spokane and for the past three years have gathered at the Celebrating Salish Conference which is hosted by the Kalispel Tribe at the Northern Quest Resort & Casino.{{Cite web |last=Rosenbaum |first=Cary |date=2019-03-12 |title=Celebrating Salish Conference reaches 10 years |url=http://www.tribaltribune.com/news/article_84c3e732-44fa-11e9-beec-af4b6cc20841.html |access-date=2023-10-31 |website=Tribal Tribune |language=en}}

• Coast Salish languages

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• {{Cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Laurence C. |title=Thompson River Salish Dictionary |last2=Thompson |first2=M. Terry |date=1996 |publisher=University of Montana |isbn=978-1-879763-12-8 |edition= |series=University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics |location=Missoula, MT|volume=12}}

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• Flucke, A. F. Interior Salish. 1952.
• Hanna, Darwin, and Mamie Henry. Our Tellings: Interior Salish Stories of the Nlhaʼkapmx People. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1995. {{ISBN|0-7748-0525-0}}
• Orser, Brenda I. L. Stem-Initial Pharyngeal Resonants [Symbol for Central Pharyngeal Fricative, Followed by Symbol for Labialized Central Pharyngeal Fricative], in Spokane, Interior Salish. Ottawa: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1993.
• Pickford, Arthur E. Interior Salish. British Columbia heritage series, v. 3. Victoria, [B.C.]: Province of British Columbia, Dept. of Education, Division of Curriculum, 1971.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110422194716/http://kalispeltribe.com/2011-celebrating-salish-conference/ Celebrating Salish Conference]
• [http://sulustu.blogspot.com/2011/03/celebrating-salish.html Celebrating Salish Blog]
• [http://www.inlander.com/spokane/article-16320-the-word-for-hope.html Inlander Article for Celebrating Salish]

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