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What does Salishan mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or like any of the Salish peoples or their languages.
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Upon the southeast Salishan tribes extended into Montana, including the upper drainage of the Columbia.
According to Kinkade, at least six or seven out of the twenty-three Salishan languages utilize a special affix to indicate what he calls third-person topic objects.
Of the above tribes the Okinagan are now known to be Salishan.
The Cowlitz were a numerous and powerful tribe of Salishan stock, in the valley of the river of that name.
This may also be said of some of the Salishan tribes, though others of the same stock have complicated systems.
He printed a Salishan grammar, and prepared a Salishan-English dictionary.

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