"MOSAN" languages.  Sapir proposed that all of these families and isolates
are related in a family which he called Mosan, and also suggested that
Algic is related to them.  These suggestions are not widely accepted at
present.


WAKASHAN
     Kwakiutlan: Kwakiutl (Kwakwala), Bella Bella (Heiltsuk),
          Haisla (Kitamat) 
     Nootkan: Nootka, Nitinaht, Makah

     Haisla and Bella Bella are spoken on the northern coast of
     British Columbia.  Kwakiutl is spoken on the northern part
     of Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland coast.  Nootka
     and Nitinaht are spoken on southern Vancouver Island; Makah
     is a dialect of Nitinaht spoken on the northern tip of the
     Olympic Peninsula in Washington.


SALISH
     Bella Coola
     Other Salish
          Coast: Comox, Squamish, Nooksack, Halkomelem,
               Lushotseed, Twana; Tillamook
          Tsamosan: Upper Chehalish, Cowlitz, Quinault, Lower
               Chehalish
          Interior: Lillooet, Thompson, Shuswap, Columbian,
               Okanagan, Kalispel, Couer d'Alene, Colville,
               Spokane

     The Salish languages are spoken in Washington and southern
     British Columbia; interior languages reach into Idaho and
     western Montana.  Tillamook was spoken on the Oregon coast
     just south of the mouth of the Columbia.


CHIMAKUAN
Two languages, Quileute and þChemakum, spoken on the
Olympic Peninsula


KUTENAI
a language isolate spoken in northern Idaho and adjacent
parts of Montana and British Columbia