Saanich (also Sənčáθən , written as SENĆOŦEN in Saanich orthography and pronounced [sənˈt͡ʃɑs̪ən] ) is the language of the First Nations Saanich people in the Pacific Northwest region of northwestern North America. Saanich is a Coast Salishan language in the Northern Straits dialect continuum , the varieties of which are closely related to the Klallam language .
10-598: "The W̱SÁNEĆ School Board, together with the FirstVoices program for revitalizing Aboriginal languages, is working to teach a new generation to speak SENĆOŦEN " at the ȽÁU,WELṈEW̱ Tribal School. A Saanich texting app was released in 2012. A SENĆOŦEN iPhone app was released in October 2011. An online dictionary, phrasebook, and language learning portal is available at the First Voices SENĆOŦEN Community Portal. Saanich has no rounded vowels in native vocabulary. As in many languages, vowels are strongly affected by post-velar consonants. The following table includes all
20-600: A CV → VC metathesis process (i.e. consonant metathesizes with vowel). Saanich people The Saanich or W̱sáneć ( Saanich : W̱SÁNEĆ , [xʷˈsenət͡ʃ] , Xwsenəč ) are indigenous nations from the north coast of the Gulf and San Juan Islands , southern Vancouver Island and the southern edge of the Lower Mainland in British Columbia . The W̱SÁNEĆ (weh-saanich) peoples are represented by
30-424: A lower-case s for the third person possessive suffix. The glottal stop /ʔ/ is not always indicated, but may be written with a spacing cedilla : ¸ , or less formally with a comma : , . When distinguished, the glottalized resonants are ⟨L¸ M¸ N¸ Ṉ¸ U¸ Y¸⟩ . The vowel /e/ is usually written Á , unless it occurs next to a post-velar consonant ( /k̠ k̠ʷ k̠ʼ k̠ʷʼ x̠ x̠ʷ ŋ̠ ŋ̠ʷ/ ), where it
40-420: A word) from epenthetic schwas ("unstressed"). U+00CD (Í) U+0106 (Ć) U+015A (Ś) U+0166 (Ŧ) U+023A (Ⱥ) U+023B (Ȼ) U+023D (Ƚ) U+023E (Ⱦ) U+1E30 (Ḱ) The Saanich orthography was created by Dave Elliott in 1978, by using a typewriter to combine Latin characters with other marks to create new characters. It is a unicase alphabet, using only uppercase letters with the single exception of
50-584: Is written A . Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: In 2004, four characters from the SENĆOŦEN orthography were added to the Unicode standard. In Saanich, metathesis is used as a grammatical device to indicate "actual" aspect . The actual aspect is most often translated into English as a be …-ing progressive. The actual aspect is derived from the "nonactual" verb form by
60-605: The Government. The creation of this council not only brought three Indigenous groups together, but it also established a legal governing body. With this council, came many proposals and projects to benefit the W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations. Includes: The W̱SÁNEĆ language or Saanich dialect is called SENĆOŦEN. This dialect was revitalized by the late John Elliot, an important member of the W̱SÁNEĆ community and peoples. Four of
70-553: The Saanich First Nations, Tsartlip, Pauquachin, Tseycum and Tsawout, created the ȽÁU,WELṈEW̱ Tribal School in 1989. It holds classes from preschool to grade 10, with classes for adults in the adult centre next door to the high school where SENĆOŦEN , the W̱SÁNEĆ language, and W̱SÁNEĆ culture are taught along with the provincial curriculum. The school is also a venue for community events. This article relating to
80-532: The Tsartlip (Sart-Lip), Pauquachin (Paw-Qua-Chin), Tsawout (Say-Out), Tseycum (Sigh-Come) and Malahat (Mal-a-hat) Nations. The W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Council Society consists of three of theses Nations: Tsartlip, Tseycum and Tsawout. These W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations remain on their ancestral lands. On May 7, 2018, the W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Council was created as a representation of the W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations to
90-434: The laterals. The post-velars are often written ⟨ q ⟩, ⟨ χ ⟩, etc., but are not actually uvular. Saanich stress is phonemic. Each full word has one stressed syllable, either in the root or in a suffix, the position of which is lexically determined. " Secondary stress " is sometimes described, but this is merely a way of distinguishing lexical schwas (with "secondary stress", like all other vowels in
100-513: The sounds found in the North Straits dialects. No one dialect includes them all. Plosives are not aspirated, but are not voiced either. Ejectives have weak glottalization. The dentals are often written ⟨ θ ⟩, ⟨ tθʼ ⟩, but this is inaccurate, as they are laminal sibilants , [s̻, ts̻] , and are only rarely interdental . The alveolars /s, ts, tsʼ/ , on the other hand, are apical , as are all alveolars, including
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