Wakashan languages

Wakashan
Geographic distribution	British Columbia, Canada
Linguistic classification	One of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions	Northern Southern
ISO 639-2 / 5	wak
Glottolog	waka1280
Pre-contact distribution of Wakashan languages

Wakashan is a family of languages spoken in British Columbia around and on Vancouver Island, and in the northwestern corner of the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, on the south side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

As is typical of the Northwest Coast, Wakashan languages have large consonant inventories—the consonants often occurring in complex clusters.