Wakashan is a family of languages spoken around Vancouver Island. Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada, off the Pacific coast. ...
As typical of the Northwest Coast, Wakashan languages have large consonant inventories—the consonants often occurring in complex clusters.
The Wakashan language family comprises seven related languages, spoken along the coast of British Columbia, on Vancouver Island, and on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.
Currently, all the Wakashan languages are spoken mainly by older members of each of the communities.
The Wakashan languages are an invaluable source of knowledge for linguists.