• Palaihnihan (also Palaihnih) is a language family of northeastern California. It consists of two closely related languages, both now extinct: Palaihnihan...
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  • Atsugewi is a recently extinct Palaihnihan language of northeastern California spoken by the Atsugewi people of Hat Creek and Dixie Valley. In 1962, there...
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  • valley. Together, Achumawi and Atsugewi are said to comprise the Palaihnihan language family separate from the adjacent and related Shastan family. The...
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    from Shasta–Palaihnihan and Yuman, all branches are single languages or shallow families. Hokan Chimariko Yana/Yahi Karuk Shasta–Palaihnihan Shastan (4)...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • Atsugewi (section Language)
    brit.org/uses/tribes/19/ (68 documented uses). The Atsugewi language is a Palaihnihan language. As of 1994, an estimated three people spoke Atsugewi. The...
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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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  • 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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    with Karuk, Chimariko, Shastan, Palaihnihan, and Pomoan. Contemporary linguists generally consider Yana to be a language isolate. The use of bipartite verb...
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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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    Languages Families Algonquian languages Athabaskan languages Catawban languages Eskimoan languages Iroquoian languages (Northern) Iroquoian languages...
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    Achomawi (section Language)
    estimated at 1,500. The Achomawi language and the Atsugewi language are classified together as the Palaihnihan languages, and more broadly in a possible...
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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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    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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  • African languages in its phonology, vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, and semantics. Turner identified over 300 loanwords from various languages of...
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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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     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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    Palaihnihan families. Edward Sapir's famous 1929 classification grouped Chimariko with Shastan, Palaihnihan, Pomoan, and the Karuk and Yana languages...
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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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    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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  • Illinois has speakers of many other languages, of which Spanish is by far the most widespread. Illinois's indigenous languages disappeared when the Indian population...
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    language shift led to the displacement by speaker of the Kalapuyan (†), Na-Dene, Palaihnihan, Plateau Penutian, Salishan, etc., as well as languages of...
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    on a variety of sign languages. The fifth, dynamic, is unique to West’s analysis, though it may be present in other sign languages as well. West argued...
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  • in Languages Other Than English in United States". Ammon, Ulrich; International Sociological Association (1989). Status and Function of Languages and...
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    languages and the languages of Eastern Polynesia, which include Rapanui, Māori, Tahitian and Hawaiian. Nuclear Polynesian and Tongic (the languages of...
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    Unami is an Eastern Algonquian language. The hypothetical common ancestor language from which the Eastern Algonquian languages descend is Proto-Eastern Algonquian...
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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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