• Thumbnail for Yurok language
    Yurok (also Chillula, Mita, Pekwan, Rikwa, Sugon, Weitspek, Weitspekan) is an Algic language. It is the traditional language of the Yurok people of Del...
    31 KB (2,615 words) - 10:01, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Extinct language
    nearly extinct Yurok language is a success story. The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 7, 2013 "Revival of nearly extinct Yurok language is a success...
    20 KB (3,022 words) - 15:19, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Algonquian–Wakashan languages
    Algonquian–Wakashan Algic (Algonkin–Ritwan) Algonquian (Algonkin) Beothuk Wiyot–Yurok (Ritwan) Kutenai (also known as Kootenay; a language isolate) Mosan Wakashan...
    6 KB (467 words) - 10:01, 13 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ojibwe language
    member of the Algic language family, other Algic languages being Wiyot and Yurok. Ojibwe is sometimes described as a Central Algonquian language, along with...
    82 KB (8,714 words) - 15:25, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Indigenous languages of the Americas
    (due to later migrations of the Kickapoo) with two outliers in California (Yurok and Wiyot); Na-Dené spans from Alaska and western Canada through Washington...
    105 KB (6,811 words) - 00:31, 11 July 2024
  • Pomo (Hokan) Rama (Chibchan) Southern Quechua (Quechuan) Wichita (Caddoan) Yurok (Algic) Some languages without noun class may have noun classifiers instead...
    26 KB (2,169 words) - 13:59, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives
    Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives (category Articles containing Yurok-language text)
    367–368. Chirkova, Chen & Kocjančič Antolík (2013), pp. 382–383. "Yurok consonants". Yurok Language Project. UC Berkeley. Retrieved 15 April 2021. Poulos...
    48 KB (3,578 words) - 21:22, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Karuk language
    considered to be very different from its neighboring languages, such as Yurok. Karuk uses prefixes and suffixes in a way William Bright relates to how...
    25 KB (2,192 words) - 13:52, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Native American cultures in the United States
    Californian tribes (Northern): Yok-Utian, Pacific Coast Athabaskan, Coast Miwok, Yurok, Palaihnihan, Chumashan, Uto-Aztecan Plateau tribes: Interior Salish, Plateau...
    44 KB (4,828 words) - 19:50, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Classification of the Indigenous languages of the Americas
    Kallawaya) Nheengatú or Lingua Geral Amazonica ("Lingua Boa," Lingua Brasílica, Lingua Geral do Norte) Lingua Geral do Sul or Lingua Geral Paulista (Tupí...
    89 KB (2,421 words) - 23:25, 20 May 2024
  • Alliance to hear and speak the traditional languages of the Tolowa, Karuk, Yurok, Hupa, Tsnungwe, Wiyot, Mattole, and Wailaki." Agha, Marisa (18 March 2012)...
    95 KB (10,536 words) - 22:07, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Sign Language
    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...
    72 KB (8,140 words) - 08:01, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Languages of the United States
    their mostly English vocabulary with some loan words. Furthermore, it is a lingua franca among American Jews (particularly Hasidic Jewry), concentrated in...
    161 KB (13,988 words) - 04:50, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plains Indian Sign Language
    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...
    30 KB (2,930 words) - 04:37, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of extinct languages of North America
    Yana/Yanan Language isolate 1916 Yoncalla/Southern Kalapuya/Yonkalla Kalapuyan 1930s Yurok/Chillula/Mita/Pekwan/Rikwa/Sugon/Weitspek/Weitspekan Algic 2013...
    19 KB (145 words) - 18:21, 24 June 2024
  • Lhasa Tibetan Tungusic languages, such as Manchu Utian languages Urhobo Yurok (rhotic vowel harmony) Although vowel harmony is the most well-known harmony...
    51 KB (5,230 words) - 07:50, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chinese language in the United States
    was being used as a secondary dialect and replacing Cantonese as their lingua franca. Chinese Americans teach their children Chinese for a variety of...
    17 KB (1,491 words) - 02:23, 29 April 2024
  • 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...
    55 KB (5,743 words) - 21:35, 14 June 2024
  • nearly extinct Yurok language is a success story. The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 7, 2013 "Revival of nearly extinct Yurok language is a success...
    177 KB (6,106 words) - 02:58, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amerind languages
    of Greenberg, Language in the Americas]. Lingua, 78, 249-255. Berman, Howard. (1992). A comment on the Yurok and Kalapuya data in Greenberg's Language...
    29 KB (2,444 words) - 23:08, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spanglish
    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...
    58 KB (6,466 words) - 14:54, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Massachusett language
    distantly-related, only known non-Algonquian Algic languages, Wiyot and Yurok. A descendant of Proto-Algic, Proto-Algonquian, diverged and spread east...
    147 KB (15,124 words) - 12:41, 4 July 2024