The Chinookan languages are a small family of extinct languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples. Although...
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Chinookan peoples include several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages. Since at...
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Takelma Later Sapir and Leo Frachtenberg added the Kalapuyan and the Chinookan languages and then later the Alsean and Tsimshianic families, culminating in...
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Chinook Jargon (redirect from Chinook Jargon use by English-language speakers)
Chinookan and Salishan languages were VSO. However, local Athabaskan languages were SOV, so this was probably a result of contact — a cross-language compromise...
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Chinook (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
Washington State. Chinookan peoples, several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Chinookan languages, small family of languages spoken in Oregon...
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Lower Chinook (redirect from Lower Chinookan language)
Lower Chinook is a Chinookan language spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River on the west coast of North America. Clatsop (Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern...
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Ergative–absolutive alignment (redirect from Ergative-absolutive languages)
Chibchan languages Chinookan languages (extinct) Coosan languages (extinct) Eskimo–Aleut languages Guaicuruan languages Macro-Jê languages Mayan Mixe–Zoque...
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"Conversational Kiksht". Endangered Languages Archive. Retrieved 2013-02-25. "Holy road: Speaker of Wasco language dead at 91 - Indian Country Media Network"...
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Clackamas (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
people in what is now Oregon The now extinct language spoken by the tribe, one of the Chinookan languages The Clackamas River, a tributary of the Willamette...
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Salish languages in the north and Plateau Penutian languages in the south. Chinookan languages were spoken on the lower Columbia and Kalapuyan languages were...
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Edward Sapir (category Linguists of Chinookan languages)
Penutian. He specialized in the study of Athabascan languages, Chinookan languages, and Uto-Aztecan languages, producing important grammatical descriptions...
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Multnomah people (category Chinookan tribes)
speak a dialect of the Upper Chinookan language in the Oregon Penutian family. The Multnomah people are a band of the Chinookan peoples who originally resided...
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neither. All of the Chinookan languages feature what Mithun (1999) describes as "rich consonant inventor(y) typical of [languages native to] the Northwest...
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Tillamook people (section Language)
separated from their more northern kinsmen by tribes speaking Chinookan languages. Their language is spoken two dialects, the Siletz and the Tillamook proper...
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Dell Hymes (category Linguists of Chinookan languages)
foundations for the comparative, ethnographic study of language use. His research focused upon the languages of the Pacific Northwest. He was one of the first...
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Syllable (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
consonants or vowels. Languages of the northwest coast of North America, including Salishan, Wakashan and Chinookan languages, allow stop consonants...
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Frachtenberg, L. (1918). Comparative Studies in Takelman, Kalapuyan and Chinookan Lexicography, a Preliminary Paper. International Journal of American Linguistics...
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Wakashan language, also unrelated. To the south the Chinookan people spoke yet another family of unrelated languages, the Chinookan languages. All the...
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Wasco–Wishram (section Language)
Wasco-Wishram language is part of the Upper Chinookan or Kiksht division of the Chinookan language family, itself a branch of the proposed Penutian language family...
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Clatsop (category Chinookan tribes)
Northwest from Oregon (U.S.) The Clatsop (Lower Chinook: tɬác̓əp) are a Chinookan-speaking Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest of the United States...
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creole languages, pidgin languages, and sign languages originating in what is now the United States. Interlingua, an international auxiliary language, was...
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The Indigenous languages of the Americas are a diverse group of languages that originated in the Americas prior to colonization, many of which continue...
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revitalisation. Languages that have first-language speakers are known as modern or living languages to contrast them with dead languages, especially in...
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Lists of languages List of proposed language families "Glottolog 5.0 -". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2024-06-28. "What are the largest language families...
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Melville Jacobs (category Linguists of Chinookan languages)
collected large amounts of linguistic data and text from a wide range of languages including Sahaptin, Molale, Kalapuya, Clackamas, Tillamook, Alsea, Upper...
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languages have always been spoken in Canada. Prior to Confederation, the territories that would become Canada were home to over 70 distinct languages...
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11 different languages. Salishan languages Tillamook Shastan languages Shasta Penutian languages (proposed grouping) Chinookan languages Lower Chinook...
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Native American tribes from Oregon Wasco-Wishram language, a dialect of Upper Chinook, a Chinookan language Wasco Energy, an oil and gas service company specializing...
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bizaad [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, as are other languages spoken across the western areas of North America...
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also shared with Tsimshianic, Chinookan and Sahaptian languages, as well as Kutenai, a language isolate. These languages are well known for their complex...
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