Sinkyone

E886298

Sinkyone is an extinct Athabaskan language once spoken by the Sinkyone people of northern California’s Pacific coast.

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Label Occurrences
Sinkyone canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language
extinct language
language
alternativeName Sinkine NERFINISHED
Sinkyone Athabaskan NERFINISHED
associatedPeople Native Americans in California
category Extinct languages of North America
Indigenous languages of California
Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages NERFINISHED
coast Pacific coast
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentation limited
endonymStatus exonym
ethnicity Sinkyone people NERFINISHED
extinction 20th century
glottocode sink1251
glottologName Sinkyone NERFINISHED
iso639-3 skd
languageBranch Northern Athabaskan NERFINISHED
languageFamily Athabaskan NERFINISHED
languageShiftTo English NERFINISHED
neighboring Native languages
linguisticArea California linguistic area
locationDetail northern California Pacific coast
macroArea North America NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguages Kato NERFINISHED
Mattole NERFINISHED
Wailaki NERFINISHED
Yuki NERFINISHED
partOf Na-Dene language family NERFINISHED
phonologicalFeature contrastive tone absent
rich consonant inventory
region California NERFINISHED
northern California NERFINISHED
relatedTo Hupa NERFINISHED
Mattole–Bear River NERFINISHED
Wailaki language NERFINISHED
spokenBy Sinkyone people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Humboldt County NERFINISHED
Mendocino County NERFINISHED
status extinct
subfamily Pacific Coast Athabaskan NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature polysynthetic morphology
prefixing verb morphology
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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