Salishann.adj.

1897 Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1895 321 Kwakiutl, Salishan, and Chemakum..show certain similarities in form.

1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 88 In Salishan, Kutenai, Quileute and Nootka a k- or q- seems to be added in the numeral ‘three’.

a1886 J. W. Powell in 7th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1885–6 (1891) 104 Eastern Vancouver Island to about midway of its length was also held by Salishan tribes.

1902 G. W. James Indian Basketry (ed. 2) v. 51 They are of the Salishan stock.

1937 H. H. Turney-High Flathead Indians of Montana i. 11 That much of the North Pacific Coast is inhabited by Salishan people is a well-known ethnological fact. That a portion of western Montana is also inhabited by a Salishan group of tribes is also well-known.

1940 H. Vogt Salishan Stud. 1 During my stay with the Kalispel Indians..I had the opportunity of taking down some material on Spokan and Colville, Salishan languages related to Kalispel.

1959 E. Tunis Indians viii. 112/2 Not far from the Kutenai, in southern Canada, lived the Salishan tribes, speaking a language that has no traceable connection with any other Indian speech.

1973 Amer. Speech 1969 44 232 Chinook jargon is a pidginized Chinukan-derived contact vernacular with Nootkan, Salishan, English, French, and Algonkian lexical elements.

1977 Language 53 502/2 In the Salishan languages, as elsewhere on the Northwest Coast, much of the burden which in other languages falls on the syntax is shouldered by the principles of word structure.