Hanis language

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The Hanis language is an endangered Native American language traditionally spoken by the Coos people of the southern Oregon coast.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
endangered language
indigenous language of the Americas
alsoKnownAs Hanis Coos NERFINISHED
associatedStateRecognizedTribe Coos-related tribal entities in Oregon
associatedTribe Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians NERFINISHED
associatedWaterBody Coos Bay NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Miluk language NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalSignificance important for Coos identity
documentation audio recordings exist for some speakers
recorded in field notes by linguists
endonym Hanis NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Coos NERFINISHED
glottocode hani1248
hasDialects none documented as distinct dialects
hasLinguisticResearch grammatical sketches
lexical materials
historicalUse spoken in villages around Coos Bay
used in traditional Coos cultural practices
iso639-3 coo
languageFamily Oregon Coast Penutian NERFINISHED
languageShiftTo English
lexicon contains traditional ecological knowledge terms
linguisticArea Northwest Coast linguistic area NERFINISHED
linguisticTypology likely head-marking
morphology polysynthetic tendencies
phonology contrastive consonant length (reported in some descriptions)
possibleFamily Penutian languages NERFINISHED
region Oregon NERFINISHED
Pacific Northwest
revitalizationStatus subject of documentation and revitalization efforts
spokenBy Coos people NERFINISHED
status severely endangered
taughtIn tribal language programs (limited)
threatFactors boarding schools
colonization
displacement of Coos people
timeDepth spoken on southern Oregon coast for many centuries before European contact
traditionalRegion southern Oregon coast
wordOrder flexible word order
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Oregon Penutian languages hasMember Hanis language