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    The Chinookan languages were a small family of languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples. Although the last...
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    Chinookan peoples include several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages. Since at...
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    Takelma Later Sapir and Leo Frachtenberg added the Kalapuyan and the Chinookan languages and then later the Alsean and Tsimshianic families, culminating in...
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  • Chibchan languages Chinookan languages (extinct) Coosan languages (extinct) Eskimo–Aleut languages Guaicuruan languages Macro-Jê languages Mayan Mixe–Zoque...
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  • language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
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  • "Conversational Kiksht". Endangered Languages Archive. Retrieved 2013-02-25. "Holy road: Speaker of Wasco language dead at 91 - Indian Country Media Network"...
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  • Chinook (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
    Washington State. Chinookan peoples, several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Chinookan languages, small family of languages spoken in Oregon...
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  • Chinookan and Salishan languages were VSO. However, local Athabaskan languages were SOV, so this was probably a result of contact — a cross-language compromise...
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  • Lower Chinook is a Chinookan language spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River on the west coast of North America. Clatsop (Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern...
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  • Clackamas (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
    people in what is now Oregon The now extinct language spoken by the tribe, one of the Chinookan languages The Clackamas River, a tributary of the Willamette...
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    This is a list of extinct languages of North America, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant...
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  • Syllable (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    consonants or vowels. Languages of the northwest coast of North America, including Salishan, Wakashan and Chinookan languages, allow stop consonants...
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  • neither. All of the Chinookan languages feature what Mithun (1999) describes as "rich consonant inventor(y) typical of [languages native to] the Northwest...
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    Salish languages in the north and Plateau Penutian languages in the south. Chinookan languages were spoken on the lower Columbia and Kalapuyan languages were...
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    Edward Sapir (category Linguists of Chinookan languages)
    Penutian. He specialized in the study of Athabascan languages, Chinookan languages, and Uto-Aztecan languages, producing important grammatical descriptions...
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  • Multnomah people (category Chinookan tribes)
    speak a dialect of the Upper Chinookan language in the Oregon Penutian family. The Multnomah people are a band of the Chinookan peoples who originally resided...
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  • Dell Hymes (category Linguists of Chinookan languages)
    foundations for the comparative, ethnographic study of language use. His research focused upon the languages of the Pacific Northwest. He was one of the first...
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    Clatsop (category Chinookan tribes)
    The Clatsop are a small tribe of Chinookan-speaking Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. In the early 19th century they inhabited...
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    Wasco-Wishram language is part of the Upper Chinookan or Kiksht division of the Chinookan language family, itself a branch of the proposed Penutian language family...
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  • separated from their more northern kinsmen by tribes speaking Chinookan languages. Their language is spoken two dialects, the Siletz and the Tillamook proper...
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    Wakashan language, also unrelated. To the south the Chinookan people spoke yet another family of unrelated languages, the Chinookan languages. All the...
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    creole languages, pidgin languages, and sign languages originating in what is now the United States. Interlingua, an international auxiliary language, was...
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    languages have always been spoken in Canada. Prior to Confederation, the territories that would become Canada were home to over 70 distinct languages...
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    Frachtenberg, L. (1918). Comparative Studies in Takelman, Kalapuyan and Chinookan Lexicography, a Preliminary Paper. International Journal of American Linguistics...
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    creole in which LSF is the superstrate language and the native village sign languages are substrate languages.: 493  However, more recent research has...
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    revitalisation. Languages that have first-language speakers are known as modern or living languages to contrast them with dead languages, especially in...
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  • 11 different languages. Salishan languages Tillamook Shastan languages Shasta Penutian languages (proposed grouping) Chinookan languages Lower Chinook...
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    ooligan, oulachon, and uthlecan) is from the Chinookan language and the Chinook Jargon based on that language. One of several theories for the origin of...
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  • located in Sammamish, Washington, a suburb east of Seattle. In the Chinookan language, Sahalee means "high heavenly ground." The 27-hole course is located...
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    The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...
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