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Here is an example : lam is " house " in the dialect of the Sk-qô'mic ; the same word is 

 found as Uem in the dialect of the ÇatlA'ltq and Pentlatc. The former call " house " also 

 (tya, a word of doubtful origin. The Snanaimuq use the reduplicated form hl'lem ; the 

 Lk'uiigen change m into w, — as is the case throughout in their dialect — and have the word 

 (I'len. A comparison of a few such words is given in the following list Avhich is the first 

 complete enumeration of the Canadian dialects of the Coast Salish : — ^ 



A study of the vocabulary of the Çatloltq shows that they borrowed a great number 



It shows also the peculiarity of 



of words from their northern neighbors, the Kwakiutl 



' Words derived from separate roots are placed in parentheses. 



