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    Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi
    Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi
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      Title: Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi

      Author: George Gibbs

      Release Date: August 3, 2007 [EBook #22228]

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      ALPHABETICAL VOCABULARIES

      OF THE

      CLALLAM AND LUMMI.

      BY

      GEORGE GIBBS.

      PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

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      1863.

      Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors have been corrected. All other inconsistencies are as in the original. A table of contents, though not present in the original, has been provided below:

      Preface

      Vocabulary of the Clallam

      A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, W, Y.

      Local Nomenclature of the Clallam Tribe

      Vocabulary of the Lummi

      A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, W, Y.

      Local Nomenclature of the Lummi Tribe

      Names of Lummi Chiefs

      PREFACE.

      The tribe of Clallams, as they are usually called by the residents of Washington Territory—by the neighboring Indians named S'klal´am, and denominated by themselves Nūs-klái yūm—inhabit the southern shore of Fuca Strait, from about the Okĕho River on the west, to Port Townshend on the east, bordering in the first direction on the Makahs, sometimes called Classets (the Klaizzart of Jewitt), a tribe of the Nootka family who inhabit Cape Flattery, and in the other on the Chemakum, like themselves a branch of the Selish, though a yet more remote one. Their language is the same, with some dialectic differences only, as that of the Songhus and Sokes of Vancouver Island opposite. It is this which has been referred to by Drs. Scouler and Latham as the Nusdalum, undoubtedly, in the first instance, a misprint.

      The Clallam differs materially from the other Selish languages of the Puget Sound country, though less from the Lummi than the rest. Its noticeable feature is the frequent occurrence of the nasal ng.

      The Lummi tribe live on the lower part of a river heading in the Cascade Range, north-east of Mount Baker, and emptying by two mouths, one into Bellingham Bay, the other into the Gulf of Georgia, the upper waters of which are inhabited by the Nook-sahks (Nūk-sák). They are, however, intruders here, their former country having been a part of the group of islands between the continent and Vancouver Island, to which they still occasionally resort. Their own name is Nūkh´lum-mi. The Skagits call them Nūkh-lésh, and some of the other tribes Há-lum-mi. Their dialectic affinities are rather with the Sannitch of the south-eastern end of Vancouver Island than with any of the

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