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    The Chimakuan languages are a group of extinct languages that were spoken in northwestern Washington state, United States, on the Olympic Peninsula. They...
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    other language family is well established. Edward Sapir suggested that the Salishan languages might be related to the Wakashan and Chimakuan languages in...
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  • Mosan is a hypothetical language family consisting of the Salishan, Wakashan, and Chimakuan languages of the Pacific Northwest region of North America...
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    elaborated by Morris Swadesh, the Wakashan languages were grouped together with Salishan and Chimakuan languages in a "Mosan" macrofamily. This proposed...
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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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  • anglicized as Quillayute /kwɪˈleɪjuːt/, is an extinct language, and was the last Chimakuan language, spoken natively until the end of the 20th century by...
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  • affixes are relatively rare and are used in Wakashan, Salishan, and Chimakuan languages — the presence of these is an areal feature of the Pacific Northwest...
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  • Eskimo–Aleut languages. Examples of affixally polysynthetic languages include Inuktitut, Cherokee, Athabaskan languages, the Chimakuan languages (Quileute)...
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  • (/ˈtʃɛməkʌm/ CHEM-ək-um; also written as Chimakum or Chimacum) is an extinct Chimakuan language once spoken by the Chemakum, a Native American group that once lived...
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    Quileute (section Language)
    acres). The Quileute language belongs to the Chimakuan family of languages among Northwest Coast indigenous peoples. The Quileute language is an isolate, as...
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    Chimakum (section Language)
    language. In the present day there are people who identify as Chimakums or descendants of Chimakums. The Chemakum language was one of two Chimakuan languages...
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    Amerind Northern Amerind Almosan–Keresiouan Almosan Algic Kutenai Mosan Chimakuan Salishan Wakashan Keresiouan Caddoan Iroquoian Keresan Siouan–Yuchi Siouan...
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    Coast Salish languages related to other Salishan language groups in the Northwest. The Quileute and Hoh spoke unrelated Chimakuan languages, while the Makah...
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    Wiyot–Yurok (Ritwan) Kutenai (also known as Kootenay; a language isolate) Mosan Wakashan Chimakuan Salishan Kutenai may possibly be distantly related to...
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    Ravens in Native American mythology (category Articles with text in Yupik languages)
    States, currently numbering approximately 2000. Their language belongs to the Chimakuan languages family. The native name for Raven among the Quileute...
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  • Dené–Yeniseian languages are a recent proposal which has been generally well received, whereas reconstructions of the Proto-World language are often viewed...
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  • Nasal consonant (category Articles containing Catalan-language text)
    having no nasals.[citation needed] Several of languages surrounding Puget Sound, such as Quileute (Chimakuan family), Lushootseed (Salishan family), and...
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  • history of the sprachraum. Extinct language Language death Lists of endangered languages Lists of extinct languages Last surviving native speaker; it is...
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  • Quileute, a Chimakuan language of the Quileute and Makah people of western Washington state in the United States; see Quileute language Quillayute Airport...
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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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    Languages Families Algonquian languages Athabaskan languages Catawban languages Eskimoan languages Iroquoian languages (Northern) Iroquoian languages...
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    Wakashan and Chimakuan families. Some features are also shared with Tsimshianic, Chinookan and Sahaptian languages, as well as Kutenai, a language isolate...
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  • M-T pronouns (category Languages of Europe)
    Atakapan, Chitimacha, Cuitlatec, Haida, Kutenai, Proto-Caddoan, Proto-Chimakuan, Proto-Comecrudan, Proto-Iroquoian, Proto-Muskogean, Proto-Siouan-Catawba...
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    This is a list of extinct languages of North America, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant...
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  • Occlusive (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Some of the Chimakuan, Salishan, and Wakashan languages near Puget Sound lack nasal occlusives [m] and [n], as does the Rotokas language of Papua New...
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    with varying spellings due to transliteration of their name from the Chimakuan language. Creation of the county from the western half of Jefferson and a portion...
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  • List of contemporary ethnic groups (category CS1 Turkish-language sources (tr))
    Aramaic language morphed into the Neo-Aramaic languages around 1200 AD. Whether the majority of the Assyrians are still speaking these languages is unclear...
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  • List of goddesses (category Articles containing Portuguese-language text)
    This is a list of goddesses, deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender. Ethiopian Dhat-Badan Kafa Atete Akan (inc. Ashanti) Asase Yaa (Asaase...
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  • from their more northern kinsmen by tribes speaking Chinookan languages. Their language is spoken two dialects, the Siletz and the Tillamook proper. It...
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  • Glottolog (category Language families)
    of the world's languages. In addition to listing linguistic materials (grammars, articles, dictionaries) describing individual languages, the database...
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