Songhees dialect

Lekwungen, Songhees or Songish is a dialect or language of North Straits Salish, a Salishan language spoken by the Lekwungen on Vancouver Island in British Columbia in Canada and on San Juan Island in the State of Washington in the United States. As of 2018, there was only one elderly native speaker of, but there are ongoing movements to revitalize it.

Orthography
Songhees is written with the lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ phonetic alphabet, or LPA for short, a version of Americanist phonetic notation, in a language revitalization program called həlitxʷ tθə lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ ("Bringing lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ Language Back to Life") of the Songhees First Nation developed in 2018.