[2] Lekwungen is a variety of Northern Straits Salish, a Coast Salish language originally spoken from southern Vancouver Island, the San Juan Islands, and the area around Bellingham and Semiahmoo Bays.

[1] All dialects of Northern Straits are mutually intelligible, to the degree where native speakers cannot tell the differece without listening closely.

[1] Many recordings of Lekwungen were made in the 1960s by University of Victoria student Marjorie Mitchell.

[3] Lekwungen was considered to be an extinct language in the 1980s, however there still remained a native speaker in Washington, living on the Lower Elwha Reservation.

Their program, həlitxʷ tθə lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ (Bringing Lekwungen Back to Life), was founded in 2018.

They host classes several days a week in which learners learn to pronounce traditional names, vocabulary and grammar, greetings, and cultural information.

[1][2] A "hybrid" Lekwungen dictionary was published by Timothy Montler that year which included 9,750 entries.