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SENĆOŦEN

/sən.tʃɑ.sən/

SENĆOŦEN proper noun: saanich (language).

Proper noun

SENĆOŦEN

  1. Saanich (language)
    • The SENĆOŦEN language is spoken on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. It’s orthography was created by the late Dave Elliott, a respected member of the Saanich First Nation.2004, John Elliot, Peter Brand, and Chris Harvey, Proposal to Add Four SENĆOŦEN Latin Charaters, page 1
    • Students at one Vancouver Island school are taking immersive language learning a step further — and getting their hands dirty practising SENĆOŦEN, one of the Coast Salish group of languages.2018 September 5, Clare Hennig, Jean Paetkau, “Vancouver Island school children get their hands dirty learning SENĆOŦEN language”, in CBC News

Examples of SENĆOŦEN in a sentence

  • Since her appointment in 2019, she has been learning SENĆOŦEN with the blessing and help of the W̱SÁNEĆ people (Saanich) from southern Vancouver Island.2021 June 30, Daphne Bramham, “Daphne Bramham: O Canada: This year, a lament and a hope for our nation”, in Vancouver Sun:
  • And it will also collaborate with the Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples to ensure their interests are recognized.2024 July 26, Paul Waldie, “Pitching in: Philanthropist leaves legacy of conservation in B.C.”, in The Globe and Mail:

Forms of SENĆOŦEN

alternative formSencoten
alternative formSENCOTEN

Origin of SENĆOŦEN

Unadapted borrowing from Saanich SENĆOŦEN.

Questions about SENĆOŦEN

What does SENĆOŦEN mean?
SENĆOŦEN means saanich (language).
How do you use SENĆOŦEN in a sentence?
Since her appointment in 2019, she has been learning SENĆOŦEN with the blessing and help of the W̱SÁNEĆ people (Saanich) from southern Vancouver Island.
What part of speech is SENĆOŦEN?
SENĆOŦEN is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce SENĆOŦEN?
SENĆOŦEN is pronounced /sən.tʃɑ.sən/.

Words near SENĆOŦEN in the dictionary

  1. senyors
  2. senza sordini
  3. senza sordino
  4. senzala
  5. senzalas
  6. SENĆOŦEN
  7. SEO
  8. SEOer
  9. SEOers
  10. SEOG
  11. Seogwipo

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: SENĆOŦEN (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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