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Coast Oregon Penutian languages

Proposed language family of North America From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Coast Oregon Penutian languages are a proposed family of three small languages or language clusters on the Oregon Coast that has moderate support.[1] Although much of their similarity is demonstrably due to language contact, linguists such as Scott DeLancey believe they may be genealogically related at a greater time depth. They are part of the much more hypothetical Penutian proposal.[2]

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The Coast Oregon Penutian languages are:

All Coast Oregon Penutian languages became extinct in the 20th century.

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Below is a comparison of selected basic vocabulary items in Alsea, Coos, and Lower Umpqua (a Coosan language variety). The lexical data is from Leo J. Frachtenberg's works.

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