Sahaptin is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Sahaptin or Shahaptin, endonym Ichishkin,[2] is one of the two-language Sahaptian branch of the Plateau Penutian family spoken in a section of the northwestern plateau along the Columbia River and its tributaries in southern Washington, northern Oregon, and southwestern Idaho, in the United States;[3] the other language is Nez Perce or Niimi'ipuutímt.
The word Sahaptin/Shahaptin is not the one used by the tribes that speak it, but from the Columbia Salish name, Sħáptənəxw / S-háptinoxw, which means "stranger in the land". This is the name Sinkiuse-Columbia speakers traditionally called the Nez Perce people.[4] Early white explorers mistakenly applied the name to all the various Sahaptin speaking people, as well as to the Nez Perce. Sahaptin is spoken by various tribes of the Washington Reservations; Yakama, Warm Springs, Umatilla; and also spoken in many smaller communities such as Celilo, Oregon.
The Yakama tribal cultural resources program has been promoting the use of the traditional name of the language, Ichishkíin Sɨ́nwit ('this language'), instead of the Salish term Sahaptin.[5]
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Sahaptin or Shahaptin, endonym Ichishkin, is one of the two-language Sahaptian branch of the Plateau Penutian family spoken in a section of the northwestern...
The Sahaptin are a number of Native American tribes who speak dialects of the Sahaptinlanguage. The Sahaptin tribes inhabited territory along the Columbia...
Sahaptian (also Sahaptianic, Sahaptin, Shahaptian) is a two-language branch of the Plateau Penutian family spoken by Native American peoples in the Columbia...
Salish. The Upper Cowlitz spoke a Sahaptinlanguage. Cowlitz is most similar to Lower Chehalis, another Tsamosan language, although it contains some oddities...
different dialects of Salish; the common language of Western Washington and British Columbia native peoples, and one Sahaptin dialect. However, not every band...
in transcribing the Sahaptinlanguage, e.g., iƛúpna ‘he jumped’, and it is commonly used for the same purpose in several languages of the Caucasus. In...
region has been occupied for at least 11,500 years. Members of the Sahaptinlanguage group, the Nimíipuu were the dominant people of the Columbia Plateau...
River and is therefore also called Columbia River Sahaptin. It is currently spoken as a first language by a few dozen elders and some adults in the Umatilla...
The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...
niimiipuutímt, or niimi'ipuutímt), is a Sahaptian language related to the several dialects of Sahaptin (note the spellings -ian vs. -in). Nez Perce comes...
is called x̣áwš in the Sahaptinlanguage, and qáamsit (when fresh) and qáaws (when peeled and dried) in the Nez Perce language. It is called shappelell...
language once spoken by the Molala people of Oregon. Currently it is included among the Plateau Penutian language family, with Klamath and Sahaptin being...
the common name Canby's biscuitroot (lúukš in the Sahaptinlanguage and qeqíit in the Nez Perce language). It is native to the Pacific Northwest of the United...
bizaad [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, as are other languages spoken across the western areas of North America...
called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community)...
salt-and-pepper or Indian biscuitroot (and called mámɨn in the local Sahaptinlanguage). It is native to the Northwestern United States and northern California...
regional bands who spoke the same language or dialect of Sahaptin, also known as Ichishkíin Sɨ́nwit (″this language″). Usually they named the individual...
The Yakima practical alphabet is an orthography used to write Sahaptinlanguages of the Pacific Northwest of North America. The Yakima practical alphabet...
The Kittitas (Sahaptin: Pshwánapam, also known as the Upper Yakama) are a Sahaptin tribe closely related to the Yakama, sometimes described as a band or...
German language at home. It is the second most spoken language in North Dakota (1.39% of its population) and is the third most spoken language in 16 other...
for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Martin, Shelby (2009-02-14). "Rare Yakama Sahaptinlanguage taught at university". The Spokesman-Review...
Linguistics 42, 147–213. Boas, Franz, et al. (1917). Folk-Tales of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes. Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, 11. Lancaster, Pa: American...
Wilderness of the Mount Hood National Forest. "Wahtum" comes from the Sahaptinlanguage, and means "pond' or "body of water.". The largest lake within the...
native languages subsided until the age of reformation occurred. As stated by Michael E. Krauss, from the years 1960–1970, "Alaska Native Languages" went...
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
Sahaptian languages (Nez Percé and Sahaptin). The name Penutian is based on the words meaning "two" in the Wintuan, Maiduan, and Yokutsan languages (which...
American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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