Kathlamet language

E440117

The Kathlamet language is an extinct Chinookan language once spoken by the Kathlamet people along the lower Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Clackamas language 1
Kathlamet language canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinookan language
Native American language
extinct language
indigenous language of the Americas
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culture Chinookan cultures NERFINISHED
documentedBy Franz Boas NERFINISHED
documentedIn Kathlamet Texts NERFINISHED
endonymLanguageFamily Chinookan NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Kathlamet people NERFINISHED
extinction 20th century
hasAlternativeName Cathlamet language
Kathlamat language
hasGlottocode kath1253
hasISO639-3Code none
hasLinguisticFeature complex verb morphology
noun incorporation
prefixing morphology
rich pronominal system
suffixing morphology
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive glottalization
rich consonant inventory
vowel length distinctions
hasSource Boas 1901 Kathlamet Texts NERFINISHED
Smithsonian Institution linguistic collections NERFINISHED
influencedBy Chinook Jargon NERFINISHED
languageFamily Chinookan languages NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguage Clatsop-Nehalem language NERFINISHED
Cowlitz language
Lower Chinook language
Upper Chinook language NERFINISHED
partOf Plateau linguistic area NERFINISHED
preservedIn archival manuscripts
audio recordings (limited)
region Pacific Northwest
lower Columbia River NERFINISHED
spokenBy Kathlamet people NERFINISHED
status extinct
subgroupOf Lower Chinookan languages NERFINISHED
usedFor everyday communication (historically)
mythological narratives
oral literature
traditional ceremonies
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (2)

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

Chinookan languages hasPart Kathlamet language
Melville Jacobs studied Kathlamet language
this entity surface form: Clackamas language