T'Sou-ke dialect

T'Sou-ke, also known as Sooke, is the dialect of the North Straits Salish language spoken by the T'Sou-ke people of Vancouver Island in British Columba.

[1] The name "T'Sou-ke" is an anglicization of the name of the stickleback fish which lives in the Sooke River estuary.

[2] T'Sou-ke, in contrast to other dialects of North Straits Salish, has y instead of l in some instances.

Wayne Suttles suggested that the dialect has been influenced by the neighboring S'Klallam language, or that some groups of T'Sou-ke differed in speech to others.

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