• Nuu-chah-nulth (nuučaan̓uɫ), a.k.a. Nootka (/ˈnuːtkə/), is a Wakashan language in the Pacific Northwest of North America on the west coast of Vancouver...
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    Nootka Island (French: île Nootka) is the largest island off the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is 510 square kilometres...
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    Nootka Sound (French: Baie de Nootka) is a sound of the Pacific Ocean on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, in the Pacific Northwest, historically...
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    Wakashan Languages", hosted by University of Washington "Nuučaan̓uł – Nuu-chah-nulth-Nootka language", Language Geek "Diitiidʔaatx̣ language", First Peoples...
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  • Nuu-chah-nulth language or Nootka, spoken by the above Nootka Sound Nootka Island Nootka Fault Puccinellia nutkaensis, a grass species also called Nootka alkaligrass...
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  • Nootka Jargon or Nootka Lingo was a pidginized form of the Wakashan language Nuučaan̓uł, used for trade purposes by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific...
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  • phonetic inventory of Nootka, these studies do not suggest that its phonemic inventory is the main reason why the Nootka language may be severely endangered...
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    The Nootka Crisis, also known as the Spanish Armament, was an international incident and political dispute between the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, Spain, the...
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    Edward Sapir (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Ute language". Science. 31 (792): 350–352. doi:10.1126/science.31.792.350. PMID 17738737. Sapir, Edward (1911). "Some aspects of Nootka language and culture"...
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  • The Nootka Sound Conventions were a series of three agreements between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Great Britain, signed in the 1790s, which...
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    Nuu-chah-nulth (redirect from Nootkas)
    (/nuːˈtʃɑːnʊlθ/; Nuučaan̓uł: [nuːt͡ʃaːnˀuɬʔatħ]), also formerly referred to as the Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Nuuchahnulth or Tahkaht, are one of the Indigenous peoples...
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    Chinook Wawa, Nootka Jargon was a trade language derived from Nuučaan̓uł, English, Spanish, and Russian, as well as other local languages. Also known as...
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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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  • Pidgin (redirect from Pidgin language)
    Black German Ndyuka-Tiriyó Pidgin Nefamese Nigerian Pidgin (creolized) Nootka Jargon Pidgin Delaware Pidgin Hawaiian Pidgin Iha Pidgin Ngarluma Pidgin...
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  • examples of polysynthetic languages he gave was Haida which he considered to use the agglutinative-isolating technique, Yana and Nootka both of which he considered...
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    Jargon, Chickasaw-Chocaw Trade Language, Yamá) Montagnais Pidgin Basque (also known as Pidgin Basque-Montagnais) Nootka Jargon (spoken during the 18th–19th...
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    Rosa nutkana (redirect from Nootka Rose)
    the Nootka rose, bristly rose, or wild rose is a 0.6–3.0-metre-tall (2–10-foot) perennial shrub in the rose family (Rosaceae). The species name nootka comes...
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  • Aleut language Nootka Jargon Tlingit noun Wobbly lingo Grant, Anthony (2013). "Chinuk Wawa structure dataset". Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures...
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  • Kluckhohn & MacLeish (1955) describes the backed velar as being like Arabic or Nootka ⟨q⟩, which suggests a uvular articulation. Whorf's phonemicization of Mishongnovi...
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  • from the original on 2007-08-12. Morgounova 2004. Swadesh, Morris (1938). "Nootka Internal Syntax". International Journal of American Linguistics. 9 (2–4)...
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  • Jargon Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin Ninilchik Nootka Jargon Russenorsk "Last Native Speaker Of Aleut Language In Russia Dies". RadioFreeEurope. 2022-10-05...
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    Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    ordered to preemptively take possession of Nootka Sound. Events at Nootka Sound in 1789 led to the Nootka Crisis. During the summer of 1789 Martínez sent...
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    trade in otter pelts, with Nootka Sound becoming a focus of these rivalries. The Nuu-chah-nulth speak a Southern Wakashan language and are closely related...
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    Labrador Eskimo Pidgin Hudson Strait Pidgin Eskimo (spoken from 1750–1850) Nootka Jargon (18th–19th centuries; later replaced by Chinook Jargon) Trader Navajo...
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    the Chinook Jargon – a pre-European contact language, with lexicon from at least Chinook, Chehalis, and Nootka or Nuu-chah-nulth. Chinook people were quickly...
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    Santa Cruz de Nuca (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    colony was permanently abandoned following the settlement and signing of the Nootka Convention. This final Spanish abandonment of the area left the Spanish...
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    copper and iron. The Spaniards noted their language was quite different from that of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), with which they were familiar. The Musqueam...
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  • months he spent as an enslaved captive of Maquinna of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) people on what is now the British Columbia Coast. The Canadian Encyclopedia...
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    Robert Gray near Nootka Sound. Upon entering Nootka Sound, they found William Douglas and his ship Iphigenia. Conflict led to the Nootka Crisis, which was...
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    Muquinna, Macuina, Maquilla) was the chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, during the heyday of the maritime fur trade in the 1780s and 1790s...
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