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    Maiduan (also Maidun, Pujunan) is a small endangered language family of northeastern California. The Maiduan consists of 4 languages: Maiduan Maidu †...
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    between five California language families: Maiduan languages Miwok Costanoan languages Wintuan languages Yokutsan languages That original proposal has...
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  • alternatively, Neeshenam, Nishinam, Pujuni, or Wapumni) is a nearly extinct Maiduan language spoken by the Nisenan people of central California in the foothills...
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  • extinct Maiduan language formerly spoken by Maidu peoples who lived in Northern California, between Sacramento and the Sierra foothills. Maidu Maiduan languages...
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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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    consider a genetic relationship between Yokuts, Utian, Maiduan, Wintuan, and a number of Oregon languages to be definite (cf. DeLancey and Golla 1997). Regardless...
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    Maidu (section Languages)
    area of the Feather and American Rivers and in Humbug Valley. In Maiduan languages, maidu means "man". The Maidu people are geographically dispersed...
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  • The Konkow language, also known as Northwest Maidu (also Concow-Maidu, or Koyoomkʼawi in the language itself) is a part of the Maiduan language group. It...
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    Paezan–Barbacoan Penutian   (many languages of California and sometimes languages in Mexico) California Penutian   (Wintuan + Maiduan + Yokutsan + Utian) Oregon...
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    /ˈmaɪduː/, also Northeastern Maidu or Mountain Maidu, is an extinct Maiduan language of California, United States. It was spoken by the Maidu peoples who...
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  • Vowel harmony (category Vowel-harmony languages)
    is no broad consensus. See the pertinent Phonology. Maiduan languages Nez Percé Nilotic languages Qiang (rhotic vowel harmony) Buchan Scots is a Scots...
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    have pointed out promising similarities between Plateau Penutian and the Maiduan family, although this proposal is still not completely demonstrated. A...
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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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    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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    non-Numic group of that area. The language has borrowed from the neighboring Uto-Aztecan, Maiduan and Miwokan languages and is connected to both the Great...
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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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    Roland Burrage Dixon (category Linguists of Maiduan languages)
    explicit agreement not to duplicate one another's work, Dixon working on languages and cultures in northeastern California and the northern Sierra Nevada...
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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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    Languages Families Algonquian languages Athabaskan languages Catawban languages Eskimoan languages Iroquoian languages (Northern) Iroquoian languages...
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  • history of the sprachraum. Extinct language Language death Lists of endangered languages Lists of extinct languages Last surviving native speaker; it is...
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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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    von Humboldt noticed that the languages of the Americas seemed to be very different from the better-known European languages, yet seemingly also quite similar...
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    The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and the adjacent...
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  • African languages in its phonology, vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, and semantics. Turner identified over 300 loanwords from various languages of...
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  • American language speakers in the United States. There are twelve Native American languages spoken in Arizona, in addition to three other languages that are...
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    Chinese languages, including Mandarin and Cantonese, are collectively the third most-spoken language in the United States, and are mostly spoken within...
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    and the Delawaran languages to the west and southwest of the SNEA region. South of the Delawaran languages are the Nanticokan languages of the Chesapeake...
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    younger speakers. Among the Algonquian languages, Blackfoot is relatively divergent in phonology and lexicon. The language has a fairly small phoneme inventory...
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    this to ban the teaching of all languages except for English, although the majority would ban non-English languages typically only banned German. A total...
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     16. "Native Languages of the Americas: Cherokee (Tsalagi)". Native Languages of the Americas. Retrieved May 22, 2014. "Cherokee: A Language of the United...
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