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    the Feather and American Rivers and in Humbug Valley. In Maiduan languages, maidu means "man". The Maidu people are geographically dispersed into many...
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  • Chico (also Valley Maidu) is an extinct Maiduan language formerly spoken by Maidu peoples who lived in Northern California, between Sacramento and the...
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    Maidu /ˈmaɪduː/, also Northeastern Maidu or Mountain Maidu, is an extinct Maiduan language of California, United States. It was spoken by the Maidu peoples...
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    Mountain Maidu) Chico † (also known as Valley Maidu) Konkow (also known as Northwestern Maidu) Nisenan † (also known as Southern Maidu) The languages have...
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    Nisenan (redirect from Southern Maidu)
    Nisenan have been called the Southern Maidu and Valley Maidu. While the term Maidu is still used widely, Maidu is an over-simplification of a very complex...
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    for American Sign Language. Sandy River Valley Sign Language is now extinct but once could be found around the Sandy River Valley in Maine. It was one...
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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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    several tribes: the Yuki, who were the original inhabitants of Round Valley, Concow Maidu, Little Lake and other Pomo, Nomlaki, Cahto, Wailaki, and Pit River...
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  • Lost Sierra (section Maidu)
    the Maidu. The Maidu people were divided into three tribes, including the Nisenan and Konkow Maidu, who dwelled in portions of the Sacramento Valley, and...
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  • Dorado County, California. It lies in the heart of Nisenan or southern Maidu territory Nearby communities are Shingle Springs and Diamond Springs. On...
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    Yuba County, California (category Sacramento Valley)
    Yuba County (/ˈjuːbə/ ; Maidu: Yubu) is located in north-central Central Valley, California, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, its population...
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    German language at home. It is the second most spoken language in North Dakota (1.39% of its population) and is the third most spoken language in 16 other...
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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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    as Labrador. The Inuit languages are one of the two branches of the Eskimoan language family, the other being the Yupik languages, which are spoken in Alaska...
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    meadow-filled valley generally known as Nakam Koyo/Big Meadows/Big Springs, a longstanding Yamani Maidu village site. When the dam was built, Maidu families...
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    southwestern California Maidu, northeastern California Konkow, northern California Mechoopda, northern California Nisenan, Southern Maidu, eastern-central California...
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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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    Australia, the Maidu of California, the Tlingit of Alaska, and the K'iche' Maya of Guatemala. The Estonian myth of "the Cooking of Languages" has also been...
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    Concow, California (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Concow (Maidu: Koyoom Kʼawi, meaning "Meadow") is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in the Sierra Nevada foothills covering...
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    Unami (Delaware: Wënami èlixsuwakàn) was an Algonquian language spoken by the Lenape people in the late 17th century and the early 18th century, in the...
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    California (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
    Wintu, Nomlaki, Konkow, Maidu, Patwin, Nisenan, Miwok, Coast Miwok, Lake Miwok, Ohlone, Northern Valley Yokuts, Southern Valley Yokuts, Foothill Yokuts;...
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  • the early days of settlement in the lower Mississippi River valley, and was once the language of the educated land-owning classes. Cajun French, derived...
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    [dʒalaˈɡî ɡawónihisˈdî]) is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. Ethnologue states that there were 1...
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    other indigenous ethnic groups of Central California, such as the Pomo, Maidu, Ohlone, Esselen, and northernmost Yokuts. However, Kroeber observed less...
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    Yokuts (category History of the San Joaquin Valley)
    Conventional sub-groupings include the Foothill Yokuts, Northern Valley Yokuts, and Southern Valley Yokuts. Another name used to refer to the Yokuts was Mariposans...
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  • called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community)...
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    (Gagana faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa; IPA: [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands...
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    Mountain Maidu were the primary inhabitants of the area now known as Plumas County. The Maidu lived in small settlements along the edges of valleys, subsisting...
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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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  • Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) was a village sign-language that was once widely used on the island of Martha's Vineyard from the early 18th century...
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