Extinct Native American language formerly spoken in Oregon
Alsea
Alsea–Yaquina / Yakonan
Pronunciation
/ˈælsiː/
Region
Oregon
Ethnicity
Alsea people, Yaquina people
Extinct
1942, with the death of John Albert
Language family
Coast Oregon Penutian?
Alsea
Dialects
Alsea
Yaquina
Language codes
ISO 639-3
aes
Glottolog
alse1251
Pre-contact distribution of Alsean
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Alsea or Alsean (also Yakonan) was two closely related speech varieties spoken along the central Oregon coast until the early 1950s.[1] They are sometimes taken to be different languages, but it is difficult to be sure given the poor state of attestation; Mithun believes they were probably dialects of a single language.[2]
^Buckley, Eugene (1989). "The Structure of the Alsea Verb Root: Papers from the 1989 Hokan-Penutian Workshop. Ed. Scott DeLancey". University of Oregon Papers in Linguistics. 2 (17).
^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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Retrieved 20 February 2021. Buckley, Eugene (1989). "The Structure of the Alsea Verb Root: Papers from the 1989 Hokan-Penutian Workshop. Ed. Scott DeLancey"...
considered to be a language isolate. It may be part of a Coast Oregon Penutian family together with Alsea and the Coosan languages, although the validity...
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while there are numerous lexical resemblances between Northern Wintuan and Alsea that appear to be loans. Shipley 1978, p. 89. Mithun 1999. Golla 2011, p...
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originally part of an Oregon Penutian branch along with Takelma, Siuslaw, Alsea and Coosan. A special relationship with Takelma had been proposed, together...
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1 (March 1922), pp. 1–38. In JSTOR. Leo J. Frachtenberg, "Myths of the Alsea Indians of Northwestern Oregon," International Journal of American Linguistics...
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