T'Sou-ke dialect
| T'Sou-ke | |
|---|---|
| Sooke | |
| Native to | Canada |
| Region | southern Vancouver Island |
| Ethnicity | T'Sou-ke people |
| Speakers | ~10 partial speakers (2014)[1] |
| Revival | 1 learner (2014)[1] |
Salishan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | sook1244 Sooke |
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T'Sou-ke, also spelled Sooke /ˈsuːk/ and previously Soke /ˈsoʊk/,[2] is the dialect of the North Straits Salish language spoken by the T'Sou-ke people of Vancouver Island in British Columba. As of 2014, there were no fluent speakers, although there were at least ten speakers remaining who could somewhat speak and understand the language.[1]
The spelling T'Sou-ke is an exoticization of Sooke, which derives from the name of the area around Sooke Harbor. It may be from the Klallam form /súʔukʷ/ (now pronounced [sóʔokʷ]), or a relic of an earlier Northern Straits pronunciation; the Klallam preserves the older form, where *u → /a/ in all of the Northern Straits dialects. The current Saanich form is SO¸EȻ, pronounced /'saʔəkʷ/[3] and the Lekwungen form is sáʔəkʷ.[4]
Phonology
[edit]T'Sou-ke has /j/ in some words where other dialects of North Straits Salish have /l/. Wayne Suttles suggested that the dialect has been influenced by the neighboring S'Klallam language, or that some groups of T'Sou-ke differed in speech to others.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Language Needs Assessment: T'Sou-ke First Nation". First Peoples' Language Map of British Columbia. 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-04-25. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
- ^ "T'Sou-ke". Te'mexw Treaty Association. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
- ^ Montler 2018, p. 544.
- ^ Montler 2024, p. 281.
- ^ Suttles, Wayne (2001). "Some Questions about Northern Straits" (PDF). University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics: 297–299 – via ICSNL Volumes.
Bibliography
[edit]- Montler, Timothy (2018). SENĆOŦEN: A Dictionary of the Saanich Language (PDF) (Electronic ed.). University of Washington Press.
- Montler, Timothy (2024). A Dictionary of Lək̕ʷəŋín̕əŋ (PDF).
Further reading
[edit]- Efrat, Barbara S. (1965), A Tentative Phonology of Sooke, A Coast Salish Language
- Efrat, Barbara S. (1969). A Grammar of Non-Particles in Sooke (PhD thesis). University of Pennsylvania.
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