Category:Northern Northwest Coast Sprachbund (North America)

The language families and individual languages below are (more or less) part of a general Northern Northwest Coast Sprachbund (or linguistic area). This Sprachbund may be a sub-area of the Northwest Coast Sprachbund.

Traits:


 * 1) lack of labial obstruents
 * 2) "promiscuous" number marking
 * 3) periphrastic possession
 * 4) head-final (SOV)
 * 5) noun classificatory systems