Kalapuyan languages

E254443

Native American language family language family

The Kalapuyan languages are a small group of closely related, now mostly extinct Native American languages once spoken in the Willamette Valley of western Oregon.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Kalapuyan languages canonical	10
Kalapuya language	2
Kalapuya languages	2
Northern Kalapuya	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Native American language family ⓘ language family ⓘ
alternativeName	Kalapuyan languages ⓘ surface form: Kalapuya languages Kalapuya people ⓘ surface form: Kalapuyan
arealContactWith	Chinook Jargon ⓘ
arealGroup	Northwest Coast Sprachbund ⓘ surface form: Northwest Coast linguistic area Plateau linguistic area ⓘ
associatedPeople	Kalapuya people ⓘ surface form: Kalapuya tribes of the Willamette Valley
classificationStatus	controversial within Penutian hypothesis ⓘ
continent	North America ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
documentationStatus	poorly documented ⓘ
endangeredStatus	extinct or nearly extinct ⓘ
ethnicity	Kalapuya people ⓘ
extinctionCause	language shift to English ⓘ
familyColor	American ⓘ
geographicFeature	Willamette River ⓘ Willamette Valley ⓘ surface form: Willamette Valley lowlands
glottologCode	kala1402 ⓘ
glottologName	Kalapuya people ⓘ surface form: Kalapuyan
hasLanguage	Santiam Kalapuya ⓘ surface form: Central Kalapuya Northern Kalapuya ⓘ Yoncalla ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	complex verbal morphology ⓘ suffixing morphology ⓘ
hasNeighboringLanguageFamily	Chinookan languages ⓘ Siuslaw language ⓘ surface form: Molala language Siuslaw language ⓘ surface form: Siuslaw languages Takelma language ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	rich consonant inventory ⓘ vowel length contrast ⓘ
hasSubgroup	Central Kalapuya ⓘ Northern Kalapuya ⓘ Yoncalla Kalapuya ⓘ surface form: Southern Kalapuya (Yoncalla)
hasSyntacticFeature	use of case-like postpositions ⓘ
historicalEra	19th century ⓘ pre-contact North America ⓘ
languageShiftTo	English ⓘ
linguisticTypology	agglutinative language ⓘ
macroArea	North America ⓘ
region	Willamette Valley ⓘ
researchField	Americanist linguistics ⓘ
spokenIn	western Oregon ⓘ
state	Oregon ⓘ
status	mostly extinct ⓘ
subclassOf	Penutian languages ⓘ
usedBy	Kalapuya people ⓘ surface form: Kalapuya bands
wordOrder	SOV ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin script (in linguistic documentation) ⓘ

Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kalapuya people → languageFamily → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

Kalapuya people → traditionalLanguage → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northern Kalapuya

Chinookan languages → neighboringLanguageFamily → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

Oregon Penutian languages → hasMember → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kalapuya language

Oregon Penutian languages → hasMember → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

Kalapuyan languages → alternativeName → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kalapuya languages

Yoncalla → subgroupOf → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

Yoncalla → endonymLanguageFamily → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

Luckiamute Kalapuya → languageFamily → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

Siletz Reservation → hasTraditionalLanguage → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kalapuya languages

Yoncalla Kalapuya → languageFamily → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

Marys River Kalapuya → nativeLanguage → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

Calapooia River basin → languageFamilyHistoricallySpoken → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

Santiam Kalapuya → languageFamily → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

Melville Jacobs → studied → Kalapuyan languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kalapuya language