User:MystifiedMysti/Squamish language

The Squamish language was first developed in the 1880s by a German anthropologist, however the grammar of the language was developed by a Dutch linguist in the 1950s. The orthography or spelling system of the language came about in 1960s while the first Squamish dictionary was published only recently, specifically 2011. The language shares certain similarities with languages like Sechelt and Halkomelem which are spoken in similar regions.

It is most commonly spoken in British Canada and the northwestern part of the United States. The Squamish language was originally seen as an oral language without a formal writing system, but multiple types of writing system were created after some time.

The Squamish language consists of two major types of applicative suffixes: relational and redirective.

Reduplication
Squamish contains a large variety of reduplicative processes due to its lack of inflectional devices that would otherwise mark plurality, which allows for a range of different interpretations.