 Pre-contact distribution of Alsean languages The Alsean (also Yakonan) language family consists of two closely related languages that were spoken along the central Oregon coast. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area Ranked 9th - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²) - Width 260 miles (420 km) - Length 360 miles (580 km) - % water 2. ...
Family division
Two languages: - Alsea (†)
- Yaquina (also known as Yakwina, Yakona) (†)
Both of these languages are now extinct. The Alsea were a Native American tribe of Western Oregon. ...
Yaquina originally denoted a tribe of Native Americans, now nearly extinct [citation needed], along with their language (an Alsean language that is also extinct, which is also known as Yakwina or Yakona). ...
An extinct language (also called a dead language) is a language which no longer has any native speakers. ...
The name Alsea is derived from the Coosan name for them, alsí or alsí·, and Marys River Kalapuyan name for them, alsí·ya. Alsea was last recorded in 1942 from the last speaker, John Albert, by J. P. Harrington. Pre-contact distribution of Coosan languages The Coosan (also Coos or Kusan) language family consists of two languages spoken along the southern Oregon coast. ...
Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ...
The name Yaquina is derived from the Alsean name for the Yaquina Bay and the Yaquina River region, yuqú·na. Yaquina was last recorded in 1884 by James Owen Dorsey. 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Many consider Alsea and Yaquina to be dialects of one language. Others consider them to be two different languages (that are very closely related).
There may be a distant relationship between the Alsean languages, Siuslaw, and the Coosan languages. They may also be related the Wintuan languages. Linguistic research is being carried out to determine if any of these relationships are valid—this research also is a part of a larger Penutian super-family hypothesis. Siuslaw is one of the three Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw located on the southwest Oregon Pacific coast in the United States. ...
The Coosan (also Coos or Kusan) language family consists of two languages spoken along the southern Oregon coast: Hanis Miluk (a. ...
The Wintu (also Northern Wintun) are Native Americans who lived in what is now Northern California. ...
The Penutian is a phylum (or stock) of language families that include many Native American languages of western North America, predominantly spoken at one time in Washington, Oregon, and California. ...
Sounds
Consonants Alsean languages have 34 consonants: In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by a closure or stricture of the vocal tract sufficient to cause audible turbulence. ...
- The status of /hʷ/ is uncertain.
- /s/ is actually between alveolar and post-alveolar.
In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both lips. ...
Alveolar consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the superior teeth. ...
Postalveolar (or palato-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tip of the tongue between the alveolar ridge (the place of articulation for alveolar consonants) and the palate (the place of articulation for palatal consonants). ...
Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate (the back part of the roof of the mouth, known also as the velum). ...
Uvulars are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants. ...
Glottal consonants are consonants articulated with the glottis. ...
A central or medial consonant is a consonant sound that is produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue. ...
Laterals are L-like consonants pronounced with an occlusion made somewhere along the axis of the tongue, while air from the lungs escapes at one side or both sides of the tongue. ...
Labialisation is secondary articulatory feature of sounds in a language, most usually used to refer to consonants. ...
Labialisation is secondary articulatory feature of sounds in a language, most usually used to refer to consonants. ...
Labialisation is secondary articulatory feature of sounds in a language, most usually used to refer to consonants. ...
A stop, plosive, or occlusive is a consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract. ...
Ejective consonants are a class of consonants which may contrast with aspirated or unaspirated consonants in a language. ...
An affricate is a consonant that begins like a stop (most often an alveovelar, such as [t] or [d]) and that doesnt have a release of its own, but opens directly into a fricative (or, in one language, into a trill). ...
Ejective consonants are a class of consonants which may contrast with aspirated or unaspirated consonants in a language. ...
A nasal consonant is produced when the velum—that fleshy part of the palate near the back—is lowered, allowing air to escape freely through the nose. ...
A glottalic consonant is a consonant produced with some important contribution (a movement, a closure) of the glottis (the opening that leads from the nose and mouth cavities into the larynx and the lungs). ...
Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ...
Approximants are speech sounds that could be regarded as intermediate between vowels and typical consonants. ...
A glottalic consonant is a consonant produced with some important contribution (a movement, a closure) of the glottis (the opening that leads from the nose and mouth cavities into the larynx and the lungs). ...
Vowels Alsean languages have both oral and nasal vowels. Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ...
Bibliography - Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
- Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
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