Wakashan languages
Wakashan is a family of languages spoken in British Columbia around and on Vancouver Island, and in the northwestern corner of the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, on the south side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
| Wakashan | |
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| Geographic distribution | British Columbia, Canada |
| Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
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| ISO 639-2 / 5 | wak |
| Glottolog | waka1280 |
Pre-contact distribution of Wakashan languages | |
As is typical of the Northwest Coast, Wakashan languages have large consonant inventories—the consonants often occurring in complex clusters.
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