LRInspire Native language preservation presents: Speaking Everyday Lushootseed: Basic Time of Day Greetings. Here are different greetings that can be used for different times of the day.
haʔɬ datatu (Good morning)
haʔɬ sɬax̌il (Good night)
Lushootseed is a member of the Salish language family, whose approximately twenty surviving languages are spoken from northern Oregon to central British Columbia, and from the Pacific coast eastward into Montana and along the British Columbia-Alberta border.
Translation provided by the Tulalip Lushootseed language department. For more information on the Tulalip Lushootseed language department go to http://www.TulalipLushootseed.com