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Encyclopedia > Northern Kalapuya language

Northern Kalupuyan is a Native American language in the Oregon Penutian family, indigineous to northwestern Oregon in the United States. It was spoken by Kalapuyan groups in the northern Willamette Valley southwest of present-day Portland.


Two distinct dialects of the languages have been identified. The Tualatin dialect was spoken along the Tualatin River. The Yamhill dialect was spoken along the Yamhill River. The language is closely related to Central Kalapuyan, spoken by related groups in the central and southern Willamette Valley.


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Endangered language at AllExperts (920 words)
Some languages, such as those in Indonesia may have tens of thousands of speakers but be endangered because children are no longer learning them, or speakers are in the process of shifting to using the national language Indonesian (or a local Malay variety) in place of local languages.
In contrast, a language with only 100 speakers might be considered very much alive if it is the primary language of a community, and is the first (or only) language of all children in that community (most of Andaman languages, actually spoken).
Language revitalization is the process by which a language community through political, community, and educational means attempts to increase the number of active speakers of the endangered language.
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