Puget Sound, precisely the Hood Canal, Washington state
Ethnicity
350 Twana (1977)[1]
Extinct
1980[1]
Language family
Salishan
Coast Salish
Central
Twana
Language codes
ISO 639-3
twa
Glottolog
twan1247
The Twana (tuwaduq)[2] language, also known as Skokomish, is a Coast Salish language of the Salishan language family, spoken by the Twana, the Indigenous people of Hood Canal, in Washington. It is believed by some elders within the Skokomish community (such as Bruce Subiyay Miller) that the language branched off from Lushootseed (a neighboring related Coast Salish language) because of the region-wide tradition of not speaking the name of someone who died for a year after their death. Substitute words were found in their place and often became normalizing in the community, generating differences from one community to the next. Subiyay speculated that this process increased the drift rate between languages and separated Twana firmly from Lushootseed.[citation needed]
The last fluent speaker died in 1980.[1]
The Skokomish Indian Tribe released an online Twana dictionary in 2020.[2]
The name "Skokomish" is an Anglicization of the Twana word squqəʔbəš and means "river people" or "people of the river".[2][3][4][5]
^ abcTwana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ abcDrachman, Gaberell (2020). tuwaduq: The Twana Language E-Dictionary Project. Skokomish Indian Tribe.
^Bright, William (2004). Native American Placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 452. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
^Wray, Jacilee (2003). "Skokomish: Twana Descendants". Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-8061-3552-6. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
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