• classification lists Upper Chehalis as more closely related to the Cowlitz language than it is to Lower Chehalis. Upper Chehalis at Ethnologue (18th ed...
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  • The Chehalis language is a collective expression regarding two languages, Upper Chehalis language and Lower Chehalis language. Both are members of the...
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  • groupings which are grouped into the Upper Chehalis are: Satsop (on the Satsop River) Upper Chehalis sɬačáw̓am̓š (on the Chehalis River from Cloquallum Creek to...
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  • Chehalis may refer to: Lower Chehalis people, a Native American people in Washington state Lower Chehalis language Upper Chehalis people Upper Chehalis...
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  • languages. In some classifications, Lower Chehalis is placed closer to Quinault than it is to Upper Chehalis. It went extinct in the 1990s. Vowels are...
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    Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of primarily Lower Chehalis and Upper Chehalis people located in Washington...
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  • Chehalis people may refer to: Lower Chehalis people Upper Chehalis people Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, a federally recognized tribe...
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    † Quinault (Kʷínaył)[citation needed] † Lower Chehalis (Łəw̓ál̕məš)[citation needed] † Upper Chehalis (Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉)[citation needed] † Satsop † Cowlitz...
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    Lower Chehalis itself is placed to Upper Chehalis, and belongs to the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of the Salishan languages, and...
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  • people, Upper Chehalis people, and the Cowlitz people. The Lower Chehalis are more closely related to the Quinault than they are to the Upper Chehalis. Historically...
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    progress has been made in reconstructing it. The Salishan languages, principally Chehalis, contributed greatly to the vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon...
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  • Cowlitz Salish. The Upper Cowlitz spoke a Sahaptin language. Cowlitz is most similar to Lower Chehalis, another Tsamosan language, although it contains...
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  • River Valley Kwalhioqua") on headwaters of the Chehalis River - called by the Lower Cowlitz and Upper Chehalis Owhillapsh. the Wela'pakote'li or Willapa (or...
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    this (in 1972) seems to indicate an upper bound of 500,000 ASL speakers at the time. Black American Sign Language (BASL) developed in the southeastern...
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    mixed with Chehalis (in fact, the very word Chinook is a Chehalis word for those who lived on the south of the river). Most of the language family became...
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    [dʒalaˈɡî ɡawónihisˈdî]) is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. Ethnologue states that there were 1...
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    Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe (category Articles containing Lower Chehalis-language text)
    including the Lower Chehalis and the Willapa Chinook, as well as others. In 1855, the Shoalwater Bay Indians attended the signing of the Chehalis River Treaty...
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    Salish tribes and bands, listed from north to south. Chehalis people Lower Chehalis people Upper Chehalis people Comox Cowlitz Cowichan Halkomelem-speaking...
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  • Koyukon, Upper Kuskokwim, Gwich'in, Tanana, Upper Tanana, Tanacross, Hän, Ahtna, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian as official state languages. However...
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    as Labrador. The Inuit languages are one of the two branches of the Eskimoan language family, the other being the Yupik languages, which are spoken in Alaska...
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  • American language speakers in the United States. There are twelve Native American languages spoken in Arizona, in addition to three other languages that are...
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    Mandarin and Cantonese among other varieties, is the third most-spoken language in the United States, and is mostly spoken within Chinese-American populations...
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    Stó꞉lō (section Language)
    as the Fraser Valley Pyramids or Scowlitz Mounds at Harrison Bay, near Chehalis, are under investigation by a joint task force of the Scowlitz First Nation...
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    Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk, Plains Sign Talk, Plains Sign Language, or First Nation Sign Language, is an endangered sign language common...
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    a combination of Chinookan, Nootka, Chehalis, French and English, with a smattering of words from other languages including Hawaiian and Spanish. Later...
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    The Nahuatl language in the United States is spoken primarily by Mexican immigrants from Indigenous communities and Chicanos who study and speak Nahuatl...
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