The Sechelt or shíshálh language (IPA: [siʃɜlt]), sháshíshálh or she shashishalhem (IPA: [ʃáʃíʃáɬəm]), is a Coast Salish language that originates and is spoken within the swiya (world, "Territory") of the shíshálh Nation, located on the Sunshine Coast in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.

[5] Many teachers are working with children and adults to revitalize the language in local schools, from preschool to post-secondary.

[6] In 2014, the Coastal Corridor Consortium, "an entity made up of board members from First Nations and educational partners to improve aboriginal access to and performance in postsecondary education and training", created a Sechelt Nation language certificate that is offered at Capilano University Sunshine Coast Campus in Sechelt.

Although critically endangered,[8] the shíshálh people, with help from others, have reclaimed 603 phrases and 5659 words in total[6] and have a published dictionary and grammar.

The glottal stop is often inserted between the two consecutive vowels, such as at the end of a word root and beginning of a suffix.

Like other members of the Salish language family, Sechelt is agglutinative with affixes added to nouns and verbs.

For verbs, suffixes are added to mark the subject and tense, as well as to make the statement a question or add adverbial information.

'It's my grandfather'nelh-aThat-Qtl'ems-tan-shouse-herlhemsoursila?grandmanelh-a tl'ems-tan-s lhems sila?That-Q house-her our grandma'Is that our grandmother's house?

There is no case marking in the language and a noun's role in the sentence is determined by word order.

'While there is no conjugation in Sechelt, nouns can be differentiated based on gender (male or female) and whether the object is visible.