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    Atakapa (/əˈtækəpə, -pɑː/, natively Yukhiti) is an extinct language isolate native to southwestern Louisiana and nearby coastal eastern Texas. It was...
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    The Atakapa /əˈtækəpə, -pɑː/ or Atacapa were an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, who spoke the Atakapa language and historically lived...
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    Calcasieu River (category Articles containing French-language text)
    of Mexico. The name "Calcasieu" comes (via French) from the Indian Atakapa language katkosh, for "eagle", and yok, "to cry". The Calcasieu rises in Vernon...
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  • The Atapaka Ishak Nation, officially named the Atakapa Ishak Tribe of Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana, is a cultural heritage organization of...
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    Akokisa (redirect from Akokisa language)
    present-day Greater Houston area. They were a band of the Atakapa Indians, closely related to the Atakapa of Lake Charles, Louisiana. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca...
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  • Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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    Opelousa (redirect from Opelousa language)
    in the 18th century. At various times, they allied with the neighboring Atakapa and Chitimacha peoples. Michel De Birotte, who lived in Louisiana from...
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  • Ethnology. Gatschet, Albert S. & John R. Swanton. 1932. Dictionary of the Atakapa language accompanied by text material. (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin...
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    The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...
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    the Comecrudo, Cotoname, Coahuilteco, Karankawa, Tonkawa, Atakapa, and Maratino languages into a Coahuiltecan grouping. Edward Sapir (1920) accepted...
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  • Press. Gatschet, Albert S. & John R. Swanton. 1932. Dictionary of the Atakapa language accompanied by text material. (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin...
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    Indigenous languages Indigenous languages European language dialects Pidgin languages Indigenous languages Creole languages Indigenous languages Indigenous...
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    comparison of the Tunica, Chitimacha, and Atakapa languages. Govt. print. off. Retrieved 25 August 2012. Tunica language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator...
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    structural and lexical comparison of the Tunica, Chitimacha, and Atakapa languages. Govt. Printing Office. Retrieved August 25, 2012. Toomey, Thomas...
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    (1996), Campbell (1997), and Mithun (1999). Adai † Algic (30) Alsea (2) † Atakapa † Beothuk † Caddoan (5) Cayuse † Chimakuan (2) † Chimariko † Chinookan...
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  • Any Qualified Provider in the English National Health Service (NHS) Atakapa language (ISO 639-3 code) ASQ Quality Press, American Society for Quality Appleton...
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    comprising Muskogean and a number of language isolates of the southeastern US: Atakapa, Chitimacha, Tunica, and Natchez. While well-known, the Gulf grouping is...
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    language family, are: Piman: Pima, Papago, and continuing into northern Mexico isolates of the Texas coast: Coahuilteco, Tonkawa, Karankawa, Atakapa Yuman:...
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    List of parishes in Louisiana (category Articles containing French-language text)
    from part of St. Landry Parish. From Atakapa Calcasieu, meaning crying eagle, is said to be the name of an Atakapa Native American leader 203,761 1,094 sq mi...
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    Ryukyuan languages, Korean and Koreanic languages, Atakapa and Akokisa languages, Tol and Jicaque of El Palmar languages, and the Xincan Guatemala language family...
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  • four language isolates: Natchez, Tunica, Atakapa, and (possibly) Chitimacha. Gulf was proposed as a language family by Mary Haas (Haas 1951, 1952), but...
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  • Same-sex marriage in Louisiana (category Articles containing Atakapa-language text)
    them. In the Houma language, two-spirit individuals are referred to as atak ubak (pronounced [aták úbak]), and in the Atakapa language as šo cīk (pronounced...
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    Languages Families Algonquian languages Athabaskan languages Catawban languages Eskimoan languages Iroquoian languages (Northern) Iroquoian languages...
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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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  • Texas. A few of those languages were unique to Texas, with no relatives documented elsewhere, such as Tonkawa, Karankawa, Atakapa, and Aranama, all of...
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    lwizyàn) is an umbrella term for the dialects and varieties of the French language spoken traditionally by French Louisianians in colonial Lower Louisiana...
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  • Avoyel (redirect from Avoyel language)
    trading flint from Caddoan peoples to their north to the stone deficit Atakapa and Chitimacha peoples of the Gulf Coast. The Avoyel were also known by...
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    Cajuns (section Language)
    for unrestrained emigration. Many Acadians moved to the region of the Atakapa in present-day Louisiana, often travelling via the French colony of Saint-Domingue...
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    1941 Haas also proposed grouping Natchez with the Atakapa, Chitimacha, and Tunica languages in a language family to be called Gulf. This proposal has not...
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    Costas), Florida Amacano, Florida west coast Apalachee, northwestern Florida Atakapa (Attacapa), Louisiana west coast and Texas southeastern coast Akokisa,...
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