. "The Salishan (also Salish) languages are a group of languages of the Pacific Northwest (the Canadian province of British Columbia and the American states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana). They are characterised by agglutinativity and astonishing consonant clusters\u2014for instance the Nux\u00E1lk word x\u0142p\u0313x\u0323\u02B7\u0142t\u0142p\u0142\u0142sk\u02B7c\u0313 (IPA: [x\u026Cp\u02BC\u03C7\u02B7\u026Ct\u02B0\u026Cp\u02B0\u026C\u02D0sk\u02B7\u02B0t\u0361s\u02BC]), meaning \"he had had [in his possession] a bunchberry plant\", has thirteen obstruent consonants in a row with no vowels."@en . .