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Wintuan languages

Index Wintuan languages

Wintuan (also Wintun, Wintoon, Copeh, Copehan) is a family of languages spoken in the Sacramento Valley of central Northern California. [1]

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Alfred L. Kroeber

Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist.

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Alsea language

Alsea or Alsean (also Yakonan) was two closely related speech varieties spoken along the central Oregon coast.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Endangered language

An endangered language, or moribund language, is a language that is at risk of falling out of use as its speakers die out or shift to speaking another language.

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Extinct language

An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, especially if the language has no living descendants.

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Klamath language

Klamath, also Klamath–Modoc and historically Lutuamian, is a Native American language that was spoken around Klamath Lake in what is now southern Oregon and northern California.

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Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.

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Nomlaki language

Nomlaki (Noamlakee), or Wintun, is a moribund Wintuan language of Northern California.

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Northern California

Northern California (colloquially known as NorCal or "The Northstate" for the northern interior counties north of Sacramento to the Oregon stateline) is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Patwin language

Patwin (Patween) is a critically endangered Wintuan language of Northern California.

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Penutian languages

Penutian is a proposed grouping of language families that includes many Native American languages of western North America, predominantly spoken at one time in Washington, Oregon, and California.

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Romance languages

The Romance languages (also called Romanic languages or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that began evolving from Vulgar Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries and that form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family.

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Sacramento Valley

The Sacramento Valley is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies north of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the Sacramento River.

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Wintu language

Wintu is a critically endangered Wintuan language spoken by the Wintu people of Northern California.

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Wintun

The Wintun are members of several related Native American peoples of Northern California, including the Wintu (northern), Nomlaki (central), and Patwin (southern).

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Copehan, Copehan languages, Wintoon, Wintoon languages, Wintu-Nomlaki language, Wintuan language, Wintun languages.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintuan_languages

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