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    Credential Program", where they brought in teachers from four local tribes, the Hupa, Yurok, Karuk, and Tolowa. These teachers were bilingual in their tribe's...
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    their mostly English vocabulary with some loan words. Furthermore, it is a lingua franca among American Jews (particularly Hasidic Jewry), concentrated in...
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    Southeast Asia. ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language (LSF). It has...
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  • hornjoserbšćina hun hun hu Hungarian Individual Living magyar nyelv hup hup Hupa Individual Living Na:tinixwe Mixine:whe' hye / arm* hye hy Armenian Individual...
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  • to hear and speak the traditional languages of the Tolowa, Karuk, Yurok, Hupa, Tsnungwe, Wiyot, Mattole, and Wailaki." Agha, Marisa (18 March 2012). "Language...
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  • the Pacific coast (such as Hupa), did not develop tone. Thus, the Proto-Athabascan word *tuː ('water') is toneless toː in Hupa, high-tone tó in Navajo,...
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    contains implosion in Maidu) consonant sound symbolism: in Yurok, Wiyot, Hupa, Tolowa, Karuk, and Yana Washo, spoken in the Great Basin area, shares some...
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    States and northern Mexico. This sign language was used historically as a lingua franca, notably for trading among tribes; it is still used for story-telling...
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    future where Latin Americans have colonized the galaxy and Spanglish is the lingua franca among the galaxy's sentient species. H. G. Wells's future history...
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    important language. In its simplified pidgin form, it was adopted as a regional lingua franca of New England and Long Island. As a native language, its dialects...
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  • in its vocabulary. There is some evidence for a Chinookan-Nuu-chah-nulth lingua franca in the writings of John Jewitt and in what is known as the Barclay...
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    was being used as a secondary dialect and replacing Cantonese as their lingua franca. Chinese Americans teach their children Chinese for a variety of...
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