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    The Tunica or Luhchi Yoroni (or Tonica, or less common form Yuron) language is a language isolate that was spoken in the Central and Lower Mississippi...
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  • The Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe (Tunica: Yoroniku-Halayihku), formerly known as the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana, is a federally recognized...
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    Soto expedition. The Tunica language is an isolate. Over the next centuries, under pressure from hostile neighbors, the Tunica migrated south from the...
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  • Calusa–Tunica languages are a proposed small language family that comprises the Tunica language of Louisiana and the extinct Calusa language of Florida...
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  • Louisiana Tunica, Louisiana Tunica, Mississippi Tunica County, Mississippi Tunica Lake, Lee County, Arkansas and Tunica County, Mississippi Tunica Academy...
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  • Thumbnail for Calusa language
    Julian Granberry (1994) has suggested that the Calusa language was related to the Tunica language of the lower Mississippi River Valley, with Calusa possibly...
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  • Yazoo people (redirect from Yazoo language)
    other Tunica language–speaking peoples, especially the Tunica, Koroa, and possibly the Tioux. Nothing is definitely known about their language, believed...
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    Sesostrie Youchigant (category Tunica-Biloxi)
    a chief of the Tunica-Biloxi tribe and the last known native speaker of the Tunica language. Youchigant was elected chief by the Tunica in 1911. The tribe...
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  • putative Gulf languages – comprising the Muskogean languages, Natchez, Tunica, Chitimacha, and Atakapa – with the Siouan and the Algonquian languages in the...
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  • Voiceless postalveolar fricative (category Articles containing Tunica-language text)
    postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The International Phonetic Association uses the term voiceless postalveolar...
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  • Grammatical number (category Articles containing Tunica-language text)
    359]. Harvey, Megan Anna (2023). Documenting Reawakening Languages: A Case Study of Tunica (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Arizona. pp. 50, 114–115...
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    Question (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    Other languages use verbal morphology, such as the -n verbal postfix in the Tunica language. Of the languages examined in the World Atlas of Language Structures...
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  • Mary Haas (category Linguists of Algic languages)
    dissertation titled A Grammar of the Tunica Language. In the 1930s, Haas worked with the last native speaker of Tunica, Sesostrie Youchigant, producing extensive...
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    Tequesta (redirect from Tequesta language)
    the Tequesta probably spoke the same language as the Calusa, which in his analysis relates to the Tunica language. The Tequestas did not practice any form...
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  • with four language isolates: Natchez, Tunica, Atakapa, and (possibly) Chitimacha. Gulf was proposed as a language family by Mary Haas (Haas 1951, 1952)...
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  • List of contemporary ethnic groups (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
    Retrieved 22 Feb 2012. Jeffrey P. Brain and Frank W. Porter (1990). The Tunica-Biloxi. Chelsea House Publishers. p. 93. ISBN 978-1555467319. "Indian Entities...
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    proposed grouping Natchez with the Atakapa, Chitimacha, and Tunica languages in a language family to be called Gulf. This proposal is not widely accepted...
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    main tribes were from different language groups: the Biloxi were Siouan-speaking and the Tunica had an isolate language. Today the tribe members speak...
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  • Thumbnail for Tunica treasure
    The Tunica treasure is a group of artifacts from the Tunica-Biloxi tribe discovered in the 1960s. Their discovery led to a protracted legal battle over...
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  • men using it probably only as a trade jargon or secret language. "Pijao". Ethnologue. Tunica Texts, Mary R. Haas, 1950, University of California Press...
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    Linguistic areas of the Americas (category Indigenous languages of the Americas)
    belonging to both linguistic areas. Gulf languages include Muskogean, Chitimacha, Atakapa, Tunica language, Natchez, Yuchi, Ofo (Siouan), Biloxi (Siouan)...
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  • Avoyel (redirect from Avoyel language)
    original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2018-01-23. "Tunica Language Project: A collaboration of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana and Tulane University"...
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  • Same-sex marriage in Louisiana (category Articles containing Tunica-language text)
    Retrieved September 19, 2022. "Judicial Code of the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe" (PDF). Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe. Retrieved 4 November 2022. "United...
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    Siuslaw † Solano † Takelma † Tanoan (7) Timucua † Tonkawa † Tsimshianic (2) Tunica † Utian (15) (also known as Miwok–Costanoan) Uto-Aztecan (33) Wakashan (7)...
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  • Thumbnail for Tunica (biology)
    In biology, a tunica (/ˈt(j)uːnɪkə/, UK: /ˈtʃuːnɪkə/; pl.: tunicae) is a layer, coat, sheath, or similar covering. The word came to English from the Neo-Latin...
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  • A tunica molesta (Latin for "annoying shirt") was a tunic impregnated with pitch and other flammable substances such as naphtha or resin. This was put...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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  • Thumbnail for Ofo language
    he was conducting fieldwork among the Tunica. From her information, he was then able to confirm that the language was Siouan and was similar to Biloxi...
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    may identify as Cajuns or Creoles as well as Chitimacha, Houma, Biloxi, Tunica, Choctaw, Acadians, and French Indian among others. For these reasons, as...
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  • Mosopelea (category Tunica-Biloxi)
    assimilated with the Tunica and the Siouan-speaking Biloxi. They spoke the Ofo language, generally classified as a Siouan language. According to the 1684...
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