About Puget Salish
The Puget Salish language is one of several other languages that belong to the Salish language group. Salish languages exist along the Pacific West Coast from Canada to Oregon and stretch back to Montana. Salish languages share a common ancestral, obsolete language, called Proto-Salish. They have similarities in vocabulary, sounds and some grammar. Word exchange is common between bordering languages and word evolution can be traced throughout the Salish language family.
Puget Salish is located within the Puget Sound region and includes: all of its river tributaries; the east side of Kitsap Peninsula; Whidbey Island; and the Skagit Valley. It shares its boarders with the Twana, Upper Chehalis, Sahaptin, Columbia, Nooksack, Samish and Straight Salish Languages.
Within Puget Salish, there are two major dialects: they are Northern Puget Salish (NPS) and Southern Puget Salish (SPS). The boarder for the northern and southern differences happens to be about on the King County and Snohomish County boarder. The differences between the two are namely the accent, the sounds oo and o, and some word differences.
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