page_title: Klallam language
hierarchical_section_title: Klallam language
caption_attribution_description: Map of Klallam traditional tribal territory and reservations
context_page_description: Klallam, Clallam, Ns'Klallam or S'klallam, now extinct, is a Straits Salishan language that was traditionally spoken by the Klallam peoples at Becher Bay on Vancouver Island in British Columbia and across the Strait of Juan de Fuca on the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.
  Klallam was closely related to North Straits Salish, in particular the Saanich dialect of Straits Salish, but the languages are not mutually intelligible. There were several dialects of Klallam, including Elwha Klallam, Becher Bay Klallam, Jamestown S'Klallam and Little Boston S'Klallam.
  The last native speaker of Klallam died in 2014. It continues to be spoken with varying degrees of fluency by many younger Klallam as a second language.
context_section_description: Klallam, Clallam, Ns'Klallam or S'klallam (endonym: Nəxʷsƛ̓ay̓əmúcən), now extinct, is a Straits Salishan language that was traditionally spoken by the Klallam peoples at Becher Bay on Vancouver Island in British Columbia and across the Strait of Juan de Fuca on the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.
  Klallam was closely related to North Straits Salish, in particular the Saanich dialect of Straits Salish, but the languages are not mutually intelligible. There were several dialects of Klallam, including Elwha Klallam, Becher Bay Klallam, Jamestown S'Klallam and Little Boston S'Klallam.
  The last native speaker of Klallam died in 2014. It continues to be spoken with varying degrees of fluency by many younger Klallam as a second language.
caption: Pre-contact distribution of the Klallam people and language
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