Kalapuya languages
The Kalapuya languages are a small indigenous American language family . It includes three languages that were spoken by the Kalapuya tribes in the Willamette Valley in the US state of Oregon until the middle of the 20th century .
classification
This language family consists of the following languages:
- North Kalapuya (two dialects: Tualatin, Yamhill) (†)
- Central Kalapuya (several dialects, including: Santiam, Mary's River) (†)
- South Kalapuya (Yonkalla) (†)
Relationship with other language families
So far there is no generally accepted hypothesis about the genetic relationships of the Kalapuya languages to other language families. Since Sapir (1929) they have been assigned to the Penuti languages in many publications . Campbell (1997) and Mithun (1999) do not consider the Penuti hypothesis to be rigorously proven, so they count the Kalapuya languages among the isolated language families .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Melville Jacobs: Kalapuya Texts . University of Washington Press, Seattle 1945.
- ↑ a b Berman, H. (1990). An Outline of Kalapuya Historical Phonology. International Journal of American Linguistics , 56 (1), 27-59.
- ↑ Sapir, Edward. (1929). Central and North American languages. Encyclopædia Britannica (14th ed .; Vol. 5; pp. 138-141)
- ↑ Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America . New York: Oxford University Press.
- ↑ Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.