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Spokane, n. (and a.)|spəʊˈkæn|
Also 9 Spokan, Spokein.
[Native name.]
A North American Indian people of the Salish group; the language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1831R. Cox Adventures on Columbia River I. ix. 197 The Spokans we found to be a quiet, honest, inoffensive tribe. 1838S. Parker Jrnl. Exploring Tour beyond Rocky Mts. 284 We passed to-day several small villages of the Nez Percé and Spokein nations. 1875H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States iii. iii. 615 The northernmost Salish language is the Shushwap.., then there are the..Pend d'Oreille, the Spokane, the Soaiatlpi, and the Okanagan, which with others spoken on the Columbia show close affinities. 1894Messenger Sacred Heart Jesus Apr. 273 Colonel George Wright gained a general victory over the..Spokanes. 1933V. F. Ray Sanpoil & Nespelem 9 The Sanpoil spoke a dialect of Interior Salish and were surrounded by other Salish speaking peoples. All of the neighboring dialects were intelligible to them except Columbia and Spokane. 1944N. W. Ross Westward Women 71 She had to learn the Spokane language... This was a difficult task, as the sounds the Spokanes made in speech were like nothing so much as the sounds of husking corn. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 78 Languages of sure affiliation..Spokan. Ibid. 159 In Spokane, one of the Interior Salish languages showing the greatest contrast, there are four terms that are generation-reciprocal. 1974J. Fahey Flathead Indians ii. 22 Flatheads married freely among contiguous Pend Oreilles, Nez Percés, and Spokanes. |