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Lekwungen, Songhees or Songish (Lekwungen: lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ) 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 lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ, but there are ongoing movements to revitalize it.^[2]

Songhees is written with the lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ phonetic alphabet, or LPA for short,^[2] 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.

• North Straits Salish language

• Montler, Timothy (1996). "Languages and Dialects in Straits Salishan" (PDF). ICSNL. 31.
• Montler, Timothy (1999). "Language and Dialect Variation in Straits Salishan". Anthropological Linguistics. 41 (4): 462-502. JSTOR 30028724.
• Nolan, Tess (2017). A phonetic investigation of vowel variation in Lekwungen. University of Victoria. hdl:1828/8062.

• Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.^{[This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue]}
• Songish on Glottologue
• Lekwungen dictionary