Wakashan languages

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Wakashan is a family of languages spoken in British Columbia around and on Vancouver Island.

As typical of the Northwest Coast, Wakashan languages have large consonant inventories—the consonants often occurring in complex clusters.

Family Division

Wakashan consists of 7 languages:

I. Northern Wakashan

1. Haisla (a.k.a. Xaʔislak’ala)

2. Kwakwaka'wakw (a.k.a. Kwakiutl, Southern Kwakiutl)

A. Heiltsuk-Oowekyala (a.k.a. Bella Bella)

3. Heiltsuk

4. Oowekyala

II. Southern Wakashan

5. Makah

6. Nitinaht (a.k.a. Nitinat, Ditidaht, Southern Nootkan)

7. Nuu-chah-nulth (a.k.a. Nootka, Nutka, Aht, West Coast, T’aat’aaqsapa)

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