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    The Wakashan language family consists of seven languages: Wakashan Northern Wakashan (Kwakiutlan) languages Haisla (also known as Xaʼislak'ala, X̌àh̓isl̩ak̓ala...
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    Algonquian–Wakashan (also Almosan, Algonkian–Mosan, Algonkin–Wakashan) is a hypothetical language family composed of several established language families...
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    Nivkh language of Sakhalin and the Amur river basin and the Algic languages, and a secondary relationship between these two together and the Wakashan languages...
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  • Nivkh and the Algic languages of North America, and a more distant relationship between these two together and the Wakashan languages of coastal British...
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    other language family is well established. Edward Sapir suggested that the Salishan languages might be related to the Wakashan and Chimakuan languages in...
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  • Mosan is a hypothetical language family consisting of the Salishan, Wakashan, and Chimakuan languages of the Pacific Northwest region of North America...
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    correspondences between the North Caucasian, Salishan, and Wakashan languages, concluding that Salishan and Wakashan may represent a distinct branch of North Caucasian...
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  • a South Wakashan (Nootkan) language spoken on the southern part of Vancouver Island. Nitinaht is related to the other South Wakashan languages, Makah and...
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  • in the language are /i/, /a/, /u/, /o/, /e/ and /ə/. /ə/ also exists in Kwakwala, and absent from Southern Wakashan languages. The two languages are also...
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  • Ditidaht belong to the Southern Nootkan branch of the Wakashan family. The Northern Wakashan languages, which are Kwak'wala, Heiltsuk-Oowekyala and Haisla...
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    provides. In the 1960s Morris Swadesh suggested a connection with the Wakashan languages. This was expanded by Jan Henrik Holst (2005). Every word must have...
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    Salishan languages, including Secwepemcékst and Plateau Sign Language) Northwest Coast cultural area (Haida, Salishan, Tsimshianic, and Wakashan languages, possibly...
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  • known as Bella Bella and Haihais, is a dialect of the North Wakashan (Kwakiutlan) language Heiltsuk-Oowekyala that is spoken by the Haihai (Xai'xais) and...
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  • languages Wakashan languages Yana/Yahi and other Hokan languages Mayan languages Totonacan languages Mixe-Zoquean languages Purépecha language Tequistlatecan...
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  • Sami languages son Songhai languages ssa Nilo-Saharan languages tai Tai languages tup Tupi languages tut Altaic languages wak Wakashan languages wen Sorbian...
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    uncommon sounds which are also found in some of the nearby Salishan and Wakashan languages. The Haida sound system includes ejective consonants, glottalized...
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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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  • words from contiguous North Wakashan languages (especially Heiltsuk), as well as some from neighbouring Athabascan languages and Tsimshian. Nuxalk has 29...
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  • Wuikinuxv (section Language)
    of the Northern Wakashan languages. It is more distantly related to Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht and Makah, the Southern Wakashan languages. The government...
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    Columbia in Canada. It is typically considered a language isolate, unrelated to the Salishan family of languages spoken by neighboring tribes on the coast and...
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  • Michael Fortescue (category Linguists of Wakashan languages)
    reconstructions of the Eskaleut, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Nivkh, and Wakashan proto-languages. Michael Fortescue finished school at Abingdon School in 1963....
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  • Wakashan neighbour is Oowekyala. Haisla is related to the other North Wakashan languages of Wuikyala, Heiltsuk, and Kwak'wala. It consists of two dialects...
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  • Heiltsuk (Bella Bella) and Oowekyala (Wuikyala), which unlike other Wakashan languages are tonal. It has no traditional name, so the hyphenated construction...
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  • Oowekyala (redirect from Wuikyala language)
    Ooweekeeno and ’Wuik̓ala in the language itself, is a dialect (or a sublanguage) of Heiltsuk–Oowekyala, a Northern Wakashan language spoken around Rivers Inlet...
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    Kwakʼwala (redirect from Kwakiutl language)
    or Kwak̓wala, previously known as Kwakiutl (/ˈkwɑːkjʊtəl/), is a Wakashan language spoken by about 450 Kwakwakaʼwakw people around Queen Charlotte Strait...
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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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  • Guttural (redirect from Guttural languages)
    Northeast Caucasian languages (i.e. Chechen, Lezgian, Avar) Northwest Caucasian (i.e. Abkhaz, Adyghe, Kabardian). Salishan and Wakashan language families in British...
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  • 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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  • Mary Haas (category Linguists of Wakashan languages)
    studying various languages during the summer months. Over the ten-year period from 1931 to 1941, Haas studied the Wakashan language Nitinat (Ditidaht)...
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    languages) Northwest Coast cultural area (Penutian languages, Tsimshianic languages and Wakashan languages) Across Canada, 56% of Indigenous peoples live...
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