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Nooksack Police Department
Nooksack (Nooksack language, Nooksack: ''Noxwsʼáʔaq'') or Nootsack may refer to: *Nooksack people, an American Indian tribe in Whatcom County, Washington **Nooksack language, the language of this tribe Places *Nooksack River, a river in Whatcom County, Washington **Nooksack Valley, a valley formed by this river *Nooksack, Washington, a town in Whatcom County, Washington Schools *Nooksack Valley School District (commonly referred to as Nooksack), a school district in Whatcom County, Washington **Nooksack Valley High School, the high school of this school district {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nooksack Language
The Nooksack language (''Lhéchalosem'', or ''Lhéchelesem'') is a Salishan language spoken by the Nooksack people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. It comes from the area now known as northwestern Washington (state) in Whatcom County, United States. The Nooksack language has only one fluent speaker as of 2020. Nooksack is most closely related to Squamish, Sháshíshálhem (Sechelt) and Halkomelem, which are all spoken in nearby parts of British Columbia, Canada. Some researchers have questioned whether the Nooksack language is simply a divergent dialect of Halkomelem, but research has proved that Nooksack is in fact a distinct language. Usage and revitalization efforts In the 1970s, the Salishan linguist Brent Galloway, worked closely with the last remaining native speaker, Sindick Jimmy, who died in 1988. He was compiling a dictionary of the language, and his book, ''Nooksack place names: geography, culture, and language'', appeared in 2011. The Nooksack tribe has offered cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |