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    Mattole, or Mattole–Bear River, is an extinct Athabaskan language once spoken by the Mattole and Bear River peoples of northern California. It is one of...
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    surviving person who could speak the Mattole language died in the 1950s. Historically, the Mattole lived along the Mattole River in the valley of Humboldt...
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    Hupa, Mattole–Bear River, and Tolowa in northern California; and possibly Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie in Washington. The seven Southern Athabaskan languages are...
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    River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe of Mattole, Bear River and Wiyot people in Humboldt County, California. The Bear River...
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  • Rohnerville Rancheria, but there are no remaining native speakers of the Mattole language. There are estimated to be more than 80 archeological sites of significance...
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    The most commonly used language in the United States is English (specifically American English), which is the national language. A March 2025 executive...
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    The Mattole River is a river on the north coast of California, that flows northerly, then westerly into the Pacific Ocean. The vast majority of its 62...
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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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    [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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    [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...
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  • Slovene language Li Fanwen (PR China, 1932–), Tangut language Li, Fang-Kuei (China/United States, 1902–1987), Mattole language, Tai languages, Old Chinese...
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    traditional languages of the Tolowa, Karuk, Yurok, Hupa, Tsnungwe, Wiyot, Mattole, and Wailaki." Agha, Marisa (18 March 2012). "Language preservation...
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  • English language native to the United States. English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and, since 2025, the official language of the...
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  • Li Fang-Kuei (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas. His first exposure to fieldwork was his study of the Mattole language of northern California. He...
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    The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family that was formerly spoken by several peoples of eastern coastal and southeastern...
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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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    ih-NOO-pee-at), Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern...
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    Islands] or Finoʼ Chamoru [Guam] /ˈfinoʔ t͡sɑˈmoɾu/) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering about 25,800 on Guam and about...
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    faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa, pronounced [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands...
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    John Peabody Harrington (category Indigenous languages of California)
    fieldworker who studied a broad range of languages in situ (especially dialects of Irish and Caucasian languages)., and Walsh argues that Finck may have...
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    German language at home. It is the second most spoken language in North Dakota (1.39% of its population) and is the third most spoken language in 16 other...
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  • included in Eel River) † Often the Mattole and Wailaki-speaking groups together are called Southern Athapaskans. Their languages were similar to each other,...
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  • called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community)...
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    Blackfoot language, also called Niitsi'powahsin (ᖹᐨᓱᑲᖷᑊᓱᐡ) or Siksiká (/ˈsɪksəkə/ SIK-sə-kə; Blackfoot: [sɪksiká], ᓱᖽᐧᖿ), is an Algonquian language spoken...
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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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    Wawa, also known simply as Chinook or Jargon) is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest. It spread during the 19th...
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    Sound Salish, or Skagit-Nisqually, is a Central Coast Salish language of the Salishan language family. Lushootseed is the general name for the dialect continuum...
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  • French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States. Roughly 1.18 million Americans over the age of five reported speaking the language at...
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  • extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
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    language in the United States. Over 43.4 million people aged five or older speak Spanish at home (13.7%). Spanish is also the most learned language other...
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