Chemakum, like themselves a branch of the Selish, though a yet more remote one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi] Reference

= Chemakum, Eells in Am. Antiquarian, 52, Oct., 1880 (considers language different from any of its neighbors).    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

The author finds, upon a comparison of vocabularies, that the Chemakum language has little in common with its neighbors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference