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    Chitimacha (/ˌtʃɪtɪməˈʃɑː/ CHIT-i-mə-SHAH or /tʃɪtɪˈmɑːʃə/ chit-i-MAH-shə, Sitimaxa) is a language isolate historically spoken by the Chitimacha people...
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    the Chitimacha language, a language isolate. The last two native speakers died in the 1930s, but the tribe has been working to revitalize the language since...
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    Ais people (redirect from Ais language)
    Ais language has been linked to the Chitimacha language by linguist Julian Granberry, who points out that "Ais" means "the people" in the Chitimacha language...
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    In 1919 John R. Swanton proposed a Tunican language family that would include Atakapa, Tunica, and Chitimacha; Morris Swadesh would later provide work focusing...
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    Namu Katsi and the Cottonwood Village, known as Kushuh Namu in the Chitimacha language. One of the earliest written accounts of the Bayou Chene region comes...
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    Louisiana French people who may identify as Cajuns or Creoles as well as Chitimacha, Houma, Biloxi, Tunica, Choctaw, Acadians, and French Indian among others...
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  • Yi Syllables Search for "qux" on Wikipedia. "qux", a word in the Chitimacha language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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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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  • et al. (2013) found lexical similarities among Huave, Totozoquean, and Chitimacha. However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the similarities...
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    Beothuk † Caddoan (5) Cayuse † Chimakuan (2) † Chimariko † Chinookan (3) † Chitimacha † Chumashan (6) † Coahuilteco † Comecrudan (United States & Mexico) (3)...
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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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  • Same-sex marriage in Louisiana (category Articles containing Chitimacha-language text)
    LGBT-friendly language in marriage laws Granberry, Julian (January 1, 2007). Modern Chitimacha (Sitimaxa) 2nd ed. LINCOM. ISBN 978-3895863523. "Chitimacha Tribal...
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    Jaega (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
    who occupied the coast to their north. (The Ais language has been linked to the Chitimacha language by linguist Julian Granberry.) The Jaega were linked...
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  • language isolates: Natchez, Tunica, Atakapa, and (possibly) Chitimacha. Gulf was proposed as a language family by Mary Haas (Haas 1951, 1952), but the family...
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    Muskogean and a number of language isolates of the southeastern US: Atakapa, Chitimacha, Tunica, and Natchez. While well-known, the Gulf grouping is now generally...
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    2021. Brown, Cecil; Wichmann, Soren; Beck, Dacid (2014). "Chitimacha: a Mesoamerican Language Spoken in the Lower Mississippi Valley". International Journal...
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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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    [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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    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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    erstwhile isolate Chitimacha was later proposed to be a member. The closest relatives of Totozoquean may be the Huavean languages. Comparative proto-Totozoquean...
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    family with Hokan, Muskogean, and other Gulf languages, grouped together with Coahuiltecan and Chitimacha (and not with Hokan, pace Sapir) To date, none...
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  • native languages subsided until the age of reformation occurred. As stated by Michael E. Krauss, from the years 1960–1970, "Alaska Native Languages" went...
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    Unami (Delaware: Wënami èlixsuwakàn) was an Algonquian language spoken by the Lenape people in the late 17th century and the early 18th century, in the...
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  • The Alutiiq language (also called Sugpiak, Sugpiaq, Sugcestun, Suk, Supik, Pacific Gulf Yupik, Gulf Yupik, Koniag-Chugach) is a close relative to the Central...
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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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    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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  • Morris Swadesh (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
    Mexico, and the US. He worked most prominently on the Chitimacha language, a now-extinct language isolate found among indigenous people of Louisiana. His...
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    Opelousa (redirect from Opelousa language)
    century. At various times, they allied with the neighboring Atakapa and Chitimacha peoples. Michel De Birotte, who lived in Louisiana from 1690 to 1734 and...
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    racial lines by people who may identify as Cajuns, Creoles as well as Chitimacha, Houma, Biloxi, Tunica, Choctaw, Acadians, and French Indians among others...
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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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