Twana language

{{Short description|Extinct Salishan language of Washington}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Twana

| nativename = {{lang|twa|tuwaduq}}

| states = United States

| region = Puget Sound, precisely Hood Canal, Washington state

| ethnicity = 350 Twana (1977)

| extinct = 1980

| ref = e18

| familycolor = salishan

| fam1 = Salishan

| fam2 = Coast Salish

| fam3 = Central

| iso3 = twa

| glotto = twan1247

| glottorefname = Twana

| altname = Skokomish

| script = NAPA

| revived = 2010s

}}

The Twana ({{Lang|twa|tuwaduq}}){{Cite book |last=Drachman |first=Gaberell |url=https://www.skokomish.org/Twana/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Tuwaduq-Twana-Language-Project-EDictionary.pdf |title=tuwaduq: The Twana Language E-Dictionary Project |publisher=Skokomish Indian Tribe |year=2020}} language, also known as Skokomish, is a Coast Salish language of the Salishan language family, spoken by the Twana, the Indigenous people of Hood Canal, in Washington. The name "Skokomish" is an Anglicization of the Twana word {{lang|twa|squqəʔbəš}} and means "river people" or "people of the river".{{cite book |title=Native American Placenames of the United States |last=Bright |first=William |author-link=William Bright |year=2004 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-3598-4 |page=452 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XfxzCm1qa4C&pg=PA452 |access-date=3 November 2010}}{{cite book |title=Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are |last=Wray |first=Jacilee |year=2003 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-3552-6 |page=65 |chapter=Skokomish: Twana Descendants |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ustxjL5p-y4C&pg=PA65 |access-date=3 November 2010}}[http://hood.hctc.com/~skok1/ The Skokomish Tribal Nation]