Wakashan languages
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Name (Hebrew)
שפות ווקשן
Name (Latin)
Wakashan languages
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Indians of North America Languages
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British Columbia
Washington (State)
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MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q60069
Library of congress:
sh 85144848
Sources of Information
- Murdock world cult.:p. 110 (B.C.)
- Voegelin lang.:p. 349 (B.C.)
- Waldman, C. Atlas No. Am. Ind.:pp. 226-27 (B.C.)
- The Wakashan linguistics page, via WWW, Oct. 6, 2006(Wakashan language family comprises 7 related languages spoken along coast of British Columbia, Vancouver Island & Olympic Peninsula of Washington State; Northern Wakashan (Kwakiutlan) languages: Haisla-Henaksiala (Kitimat, Kitimaat), Heiltsuk (Bella Bella, Heiltsuq), Oowekyala (Oowekeeno), Kwakwala (Kwakw'ala, Kwakiutl); Southern Wakashan (Nootkan) languages: Nuuchahnulth (Nuu-chah-nulth, Nootka), Ditidaht (Nitinat, Nitinaht), Makah)
Wikipedia description:
Wakashan is a family of languages spoken in British Columbia around and on Vancouver Island, and in the northwestern corner of the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, on the south side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. As is typical of the Northwest Coast, Wakashan languages have large consonant inventories—the consonants often occurring in complex clusters.
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