• Sahaptin (suh-HAP-tin), also called Ichishkiin (ih-chis-KEEN; Umatilla: Čiškíin, Yakama: Ichishkíin Sɨ́nwit), is one of the two-language Sahaptian branch...
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    Sahaptian (also Sahaptianic, Sahaptin, Shahaptian) is a two-language branch of the Plateau Penutian family spoken by Native American peoples in the Columbia...
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    The Sahaptin are a number of Native American tribes who speak dialects of the Sahaptin language. The Sahaptin tribes inhabited territory along the Columbia...
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    Nez Perce (category Articles containing Nez Perce-language text)
    region has been occupied for at least 11,500 years. Members of the Sahaptin language group, the Nimíipuu were the dominant people of the Columbia Plateau...
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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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    in transcribing the Sahaptin language, e.g., iƛúpna ‘he jumped’, and it is commonly used for the same purpose in several languages of the Caucasus. In...
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    the language of the Kittitas American Indian Sahaptin language. According to toponymist William Bright, the name "Kittitas" comes from the Sahaptin placename...
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    different dialects of Salish; the common language of Western Washington and British Columbia native peoples, and one Sahaptin dialect. However, not every band...
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  • River and is therefore also called Columbia River Sahaptin. It is currently spoken as a first language by a few dozen elders and some adults in the Umatilla...
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  • Salish. The Upper Cowlitz spoke a Sahaptin language. Cowlitz is most similar to Lower Chehalis, another Tsamosan language, although it contains some oddities...
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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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    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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    niimiipuutímt, or niimi'ipuutímt), is a Sahaptian language related to the several dialects of Sahaptin (note the spellings -ian vs. -in). Nez Perce comes...
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    the boundaries of the Yakama Nation's Reservation. Tẋápniš in the Sahaptin language of the Yakama is the likely source of the name Toppenish. The word...
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  • language once spoken by the Molala people of Oregon. Currently it is included among the Plateau Penutian language family, with Klamath and Sahaptin being...
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    is called x̣áwš in the Sahaptin language, and qáamsit (when fresh) and qáaws (when peeled and dried) in the Nez Perce language. It is called shappelell...
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    Mount Adams (Washington) (category Articles containing Yakama-language text)
    names for the mountain in the various Indigenous languages in its vicinity. In the Sahaptin language to the east, it is called Pátu.: 136  The word pátu...
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  • Yakima practical alphabet (category Native American language revitalization)
    The Yakima practical alphabet is an orthography used to write Sahaptin languages of the Pacific Northwest of North America. The Yakima practical alphabet...
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    Linguistics 42, 147–213. Boas, Franz, et al. (1917). Folk-Tales of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes. Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, 11. Lancaster, Pa: American...
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    Sahaptian languages (Nez Percé and Sahaptin). The name Penutian is based on the words meaning "two" in the Wintuan, Maiduan, and Yokutsan languages (where...
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    Comanche, Paiute, Shoshone, Ute Penutian: Cayuse Sahaptian: Nez Perce, Palus, Sahaptin, Umatilla Piman: Pima, Papago, and continuing into northern Mexico Puebloan:...
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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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    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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  • Wilderness of the Mount Hood National Forest. "Wahtum" comes from the Sahaptin language, and means "pond' or "body of water.". The largest lake within the...
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    the common name Canby's biscuitroot (lúukš in the Sahaptin language and qeqíit in the Nez Perce language). It is native to the Pacific Northwest of the United...
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    salt-and-pepper or Indian biscuitroot (and called mámɨn in the local Sahaptin language). It is native to the Northwestern United States and northern California...
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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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    The Umatilla are a Sahaptin-speaking Native American tribe who traditionally inhabited the Columbia Plateau region of the northwestern United States, along...
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    consist of four languages: Plateau Penutian Klamath (a.k.a. Klamath-Modoc, Lutuami, Lutuamian) † Molala † Sahaptian Nez Percé Sahaptin Plateau Penutian...
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