Miluk language

E442568

The Miluk language is an extinct Native American language once spoken by the Coos people along the southern Oregon coast.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
extinct language
language
associatedWith Coos culture
southern Oregon coastal ecosystems
country United States of America
surface form: United States
distinctFrom Hanis language NERFINISHED
documentedBy Leo J. Frachtenberg NERFINISHED
Melville Jacobs NERFINISHED
documentedIn early 20th century
endangeredStatus extinct
ethnicGroup Coos people NERFINISHED
extinctionCause colonial assimilation policies
language shift to English
hasAlternativeName Coos Bay language
Lower Coos NERFINISHED
Miluk NERFINISHED
Miluk Coos NERFINISHED
South Coos NERFINISHED
hasDialects Lower Coquille NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode milu1244
hasLanguageCodeType ISO 639-3
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
verb-initial language
hasMorphology complex verbal morphology
hasNeighboringLanguage Hanis language NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSyntax flexible word order
ISO639-3 iml
isPartOf indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest
languageFamily Coosan languages
Oregon Coast languages NERFINISHED
preservedIn archival recordings
field notes
text collections
region southern Oregon coast
spokenAlong Coos Bay NERFINISHED
Coquille River NERFINISHED
spokenBy Coos people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Oregon NERFINISHED
status extinct
subclassOf Coosan language NERFINISHED
usedFor everyday communication
ritual speech
traditional narratives
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Oregon Penutian languages hasMember Miluk language