Siuslaw

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Siuslaw is an extinct Native American language once spoken by the Siuslaw people of the central Oregon coast.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Siuslaw proper 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Penutian language
extinct language
basicWordOrder verb–subject–object
consonantInventory moderately large
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalRegion Northwest Coast NERFINISHED
documentationType grammatical notes
texts
word lists
documentedBy Dell Hymes NERFINISHED
Leo J. Frachtenberg NERFINISHED
Melville Jacobs NERFINISHED
ethnicity Lower Umpqua people NERFINISHED
Siuslaw people NERFINISHED
extinctionCentury 20th century
geographicArea Oregon NERFINISHED
Pacific Northwest NERFINISHED
glottocode sius1254
glottologName Siuslaw NERFINISHED
hasDialect Lower Umpqua NERFINISHED
Siuslaw proper NERFINISHED
hasPhonemicContrast glottalized consonants
vowel length
hasResourceType archival recordings
field notes
includedIn Survey of California and Other Indian Languages NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 sis NERFINISHED
languageCodeStandard ISO 639-3 NERFINISHED
languageEndangerment moribund by early 20th century
languageFamily Siuslaw family NERFINISHED
languageTypology polysynthetic language
lastFluentSpeakers died in 20th century
linguisticArea Oregon Coast linguistic area NERFINISHED
morphologyType polysynthetic
neighboringLanguage Alsea NERFINISHED
Coos NERFINISHED
Kalapuya NERFINISHED
Takelma NERFINISHED
possibleFamily Penutian NERFINISHED
region central Oregon coast
spokenAlong Siuslaw River NERFINISHED
Umpqua River (lower reaches) NERFINISHED
spokenBy Siuslaw people NERFINISHED
status extinct
usedFor ritual speech
traditional narratives
vowelInventory small
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (4)

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

Siuslaw language hasDialects Siuslaw
this entity surface form: Siuslaw proper