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    The Tonkawa language was spoken in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico by the Tonkawa people. A language isolate, with no known related languages, Tonkawa has...
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  • The Tonkawa are a Native American tribe who now live in Oklahoma. Their Tonkawa language, now extinct, is a linguistic isolate. Tonkawa people are enrolled...
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  • The Tonkawa are a Native American tribe of Oklahoma and Texas. Tonkawa may also refer to: Tonkawa, Oklahoma, a city in Oklahoma Tonkawa language, an extinct...
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  • northern Mexico. Hoijer, Harry. 1949. An analytical dictionary of the Tonkawa language. University of California publications in linguistics, 5(1). Berkeley:...
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  • Harry Hoijer (category Linguists of Tonkawa)
    anthropologist who worked on primarily Athabaskan languages and culture. He additionally documented the Tonkawa language, which is now extinct. Hoijer's few works...
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    Northern Oklahoma College (NOC) is a public community college in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, with additional campuses located in Enid, Oklahoma and Stillwater...
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  • Mayeye (category Tonkawa)
    The Mayeye were a Tonkawa language–speaking Native American people, who once lived in southeastern Texas. Coastal Mayeyes likely were absorbed into Karankawa...
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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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    River. Their Tonkawa language is a linguistic isolate. The tribe was later pushed south to the Red River by 1700 and later to Texas. The Tonkawa people would...
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  • known in his own language as Ha-shu-ka-na ("Can't Kill Him"), was the last major Chief of the Tonkawa Indians. The fierce Tonkawas became great friends...
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  • and a two-word phrase from "Old Simon," a Tonkawa man who also served as an informant for the Karankawa language, of which a short vocabulary was recorded...
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  • Yojuane (section Language)
    spoke the Tonkawa language or a language related to it. However Gary Anderson argues that the Yojuane spoke the same language or a related language to the...
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  • communication with the Tonkawa using signs was possible without a translator.[citation needed] The earliest concrete reference to sign language in Britain is from...
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  • language Hogg, Richard M. (UK, 1944–2007), phonology, historical linguistics Hoijer, Harry (United States, 1904–1976), Athabaskan languages, Tonkawa language...
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  • Tonkawa texts: a new linguistic edition. Edited by Thomas R. Wier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Chafe, Wallace. 2018. The Caddo language: a...
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  • languages of the region, including Karankawa and Tonkawa. Linguistic connections were proposed with Hokan, a language family of several Native American peoples...
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