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Salishan

group of languages spoken in the United States and Canada
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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 (434 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Salishan's instance of is recorded as language family[3].
  • Salishan's ISO 639-2 code is recorded as sal[4].
  • Salishan's GOST 7.75–97 code is recorded as сал 576[5].
  • Salishan's subclass of is recorded as indigenous language of North America[6].
  • Salishan's IETF language tag is recorded as sal[7].
  • Salishan's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01ghc_[8].
  • Salishan's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Salishan languages[9].
  • Salishan's described at URL is recorded as https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0090.xml[10].
  • Salishan's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300389193[11].
  • Salishan's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 869472[12].
  • Salishan's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • Salishan's Glottolog code is recorded as sali1255[14].
  • Salishan's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Salishan-languages[15].
  • Salishan's WALS family code is recorded as salishan[16].
  • Salishan's ISO 639-5 code is recorded as sal[17].
  • Salishan's distribution map is recorded as Salishan.svg[18].
  • Salishan's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 893[19].
  • Salishan's indigenous to is recorded as Salish peoples[20].
  • Salishan's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00068947n[21].
  • Salishan's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SAL[22].
  • Salishan's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3529135[23].
  • Salishan's linguistic typology is recorded as agglutinative language[24].
  • Salishan's LC and MARC vocabularies ID is recorded as languages/sal[25].
  • Salishan's LC and MARC vocabularies ID is recorded as iso639-2/sal[26].
  • Salishan's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007553425305171[27].

Why It Matters

Salishan ranks in the top 7% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (434 views/month).[2] Salishan has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Salishan is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . loc.gov. Retrieved . loc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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