Washo /ˈwɒʃoʊ/ (or Washoe; endonym wá꞉šiw ʔítlu) is an endangered Native American language isolate spoken by the Washo on the California–Nevada border...

name "Washoe" or "Washo" (as preferred by themselves) is derived from the autonym Waashiw (wa·šiw or wá:šiw) in the Washo language or from Wašišiw (waší:šiw)...

census-designated place Washoe Valley (Nevada) New Washoe City, Nevada Washo language Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, a federally recognized tribe...

from the lake. The Shoshone and Washo also regularly fished in the lake. According to traditional narratives, the Washo specifically were given fishing...

Northern Paiute band called the Kuyui Dükadü (cui-ui-fish-eaters). In the Washo language, different parts of the river have different names. Two names, ‘Át’abi...

vibration of the vocal cords. It is found as a phoneme in Jalapa Mazatec and Washo as well as in Kildin Sami. Index of phonetics articles Ladefoged & Maddieson...

explicitly ban same-sex marriage. The Code requires the married couple, known in Washo as degumLá:yaʔ (pronounced [degumˈl̥aːjaʔ]), to "consent to the establishment...

languages Washo language According to the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Comanche is also spoken in Nevada. "Native American Languages". Columbia...

Introduction of Bana Language [巴那语概况]". Minzu Yuwen. Jacobsen, William Horton (15 August 1964). A grammar of the Washo language (PhD). University of California...

are single languages or shallow families. Hokan Chimariko Yana/Yahi Karuk Shasta–Palaihnihan Shastan (4) Palaihnihan (2) Pomoan (7) Washo Esselen Salinan...

ISSN 0933-7636. Jacobsen, William Horton (15 August 1964). A grammar of the Washo language (PhD). University of California, Berkeley – via eScholarship. Jacobson...

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...

[nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North...

The most commonly used language in the United States is English (specifically American English), which is the national language. A March 2025 executive...

Blackwood Creek (Washo: dogásliʔ), is a 8-mile-long (13 km) eastward-flowing stream originating on the southwest flank of Ellis Peak in the Sierra Nevada...

includes areas outside this valley. The name for the valley in the Washo language is Welganuk. Per the USGS, The Truckee Meadows is one of a series a...

Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...

ISO 639 is a set of international standards that lists short codes for language names. The following is a complete list of three-letter codes defined in...

cross-linguistic term, which he adapted from Jacobsen's (1964) description of the Washo language. According to DeLancey (1997), Turkish, Hare, Sunwar, Lhasa Tibetan...

eyewitness accounts of beaver in the upper Carson River through 1892. The Washo people who lived in the eastern Sierra with hunting grounds extending as...

language. The letter ⟨m⟩ represents the voiced bilabial nasal /m/ in the orthography of Latin as well as in those of many modern languages. In Washo,...

Lake Tahoe (/ˈtɑːhoʊ/; Washo: dáʔaw) is a freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the Western United States, straddling the border between California...

voiced palatal approximant is a type of consonant used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...

dawn, he and his wife discover the infant Edechewe near their bed. The Washo language has a word for sugar pine, simt'á:gɨm, and also a word for "sugar pine...

A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages. Basque in Europe, Ainu and Burushaski in Asia...

high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed September 30, 2012 "The Washo Project". University of Chicago. Retrieved 2012-09-30. Barbara Lekisch (1988)...

The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family that was formerly spoken by several peoples of eastern coastal and southeastern...

Washoe Lake (Washo: c'óʔyaʔ dáʔaw) is a lake located near Carson City in the Washoe Valley of Washoe County, Nevada. It is a very shallow lake with a...

labial–velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...

An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...