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Salishan

group of languages spoken in the United States and Canada
Language language_family Q33985
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Salishan

Summary

Salishan is a language family[1]. Salishan ranks in the top 7% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (840 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Salishan's instance of is recorded as language family[3].
  • Salishan is a type of indigenous language of North America[4].
  • Salishan's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Salishan languages[5].
  • Salishan's described at URL is recorded as https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0090.xml[6].
  • Salishan's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7].
  • Salishan's indigenous to is recorded as Salish peoples[8].
  • Salishan's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SAL[9].
  • Salishan's linguistic typology is recorded as agglutinative language[10].

Why It Matters

Salishan ranks in the top 7% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (840 views/month).[2] Salishan has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] Salishan is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . loc.gov. Retrieved . loc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Instance of → —
    Indigenous to → Salish peoples
    Linguistic typology → agglutinative language
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007553425305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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