• Northern Kalapuyan is an extinct Kalapuyan language indigenous to northwestern Oregon in the United States. It was spoken by Kalapuya groups in the northern...
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    The Kalapuya are a Native American people, which had eight independent groups speaking three mutually intelligible dialects. The Kalapuya tribes' traditional...
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    Kalapuyan (also Kalapuya) is a small extinct language family that was spoken in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon, United States. It consists of...
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  • Yoncalla band of the Kalapuya people in the Umpqua River valley. It is closely related to Central Kalapuya and Northern Kalapuya, spoken in the Willamette...
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  • century. The language is closely related to Northern Kalapuya, spoken in the Tualatin and Yamhill valleys. Dialects of Central Kalapuya that have been...
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    Atfalati (category Kalapuya)
    Atfalati speak the Tualatin-Yamhill (Northern Kalapuya) language, which is one of the three Kalapuyan languages. Atfalati people ranged around the valley...
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    Blue Mountains. The Cayuse called themselves the Liksiyu in the Cayuse language. Originally located in present-day northeastern Oregon and southeastern...
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  • Alsea (category Alsean languages)
    Päifan amím, Luckiamute Kalapuya name. Si ni'-te-li tunne, Naltunne name, meaning "flatheads." Tcha yáxo amim, Luckiamute Kalapuya name. Tehayesátlu, Nestucca...
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  • Oregon Penutian is a hypothetical language family in the Penutian language phylum comprising languages spoken at one time by several groups of Native Americans...
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    Kalapuya, etc., also known as the Kalapuya Treaty or the Treaty of Dayton, was an 1855 treaty between the United States and the bands of the Kalapuya...
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    practice among the Kalapuya. The Atfalati spoke the Tualatin-Yamhill (Northern Kalapuya) language, which was one of the three Kalapuyan languages. Prior to contact...
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    of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages. Since at least 4000 BCE Chinookan peoples have resided along the upper...
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    Klamath people (category Plateau Penutian languages)
    Modoc people. The Klamath spoke one dialect of the Klamath–Modoc language - the northern or "fi-ukshikni" dialect, the other - the "southern" dialect being...
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    falling water" or "sound of water upon the rocks," in several native languages) was a tribal fishing area on the Columbia River, just east of the Cascade...
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    ímatalam that was situated at the mouth of the Umatilla River and where the language was spoken. The Nez Perce refer to the Umatilla people as hiyówatalampoo...
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  • Ocean, and are separated from their more northern kinsmen by tribes speaking Chinookan languages. Their language is spoken two dialects, the Siletz and...
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    several different languages, including Siuslaw (Lower Umpqua), Yoncalla (Southern Kalapuya), Upper Umpqua, Takelma, and the Molalla language. Archaeological...
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    Clatsop (section Language)
    Columbia River south to Tillamook Head, Oregon. Clatsop in the original language is łät'cαp, which means "place of dried salmon".[full citation needed]...
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    Mount Mazama (category Articles containing Klamath-Modoc-language text)
    Mount Mazama (Tum-sum-ne in the Native American language Klamath) is a complex volcano in the western U.S. state of Oregon, in a segment of the Cascade...
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  • into Northern Canada, and then on into western Greenland. In 2014, legislation passed in the state of Alaska to revise the official state language that...
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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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    [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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    Dinkin, Aaron (2020). "Escaping the TRAP: Losing the Northern Cities Shift in Real Time". Language Variation and Change. 32 (3): 373–393. doi:10.1017/S0954394520000137...
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  • the Columbia River. The Multnomah speak a dialect of the Upper Chinookan language in the Oregon Penutian family. The Multnomah people are a band of the Chinookan...
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    Topics Central Kalapuya language Chinookan Longhouse Northern Kalapuya language Oregon Penutian languages Salishan languages Shastan languages Thunderbird...
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  • Molala (section Language)
    shaped by distinct ecological regions. Among the bordering peoples were the Kalapuya to west in the Willamette Valley, the Upper Chinookans to north on the...
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    Molala Klamath The Wintuan languages, Takelma, and Kalapuya, absent from this list, continue to be considered Penutian languages by most scholars familiar...
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    Topics Central Kalapuya language Chinookan Longhouse Northern Kalapuya language Oregon Penutian languages Salishan languages Shastan languages Thunderbird...
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    originally spoke 10 distinct languages here, the surviving native language in the 21st century is Siletz Deen-ni, an Athabaskan language related to Tolowa. The...
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  • Siletz (section Language)
    and Bands, speaking 10 distinct languages: Alsea/Yaquina, chinuk wawa (also known as Chinook Jargon), Coos, Kalapuya, Molala, Shasta, Siuslaw/Lower Umpqua...
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