The Salishan (also Salish) languages are a group of languages of western Canaa and the Pacific Northwest of the United States. They are characterised by agglutinativity and astonishing consonant clusters—for instance the Nuxálk word xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓ (IPA: [xɬpʼχʷɬtɬpɬːskʷʦʼ]) meaning "he had had a bunchberry plant" has 13 consonants in a row with no vowels.