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Oregon Coast Penutian languages

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Geographic distribution
  
western North America

Glottolog
  
None

Subdivisions
  
Alsean Siuslaw Coosan

Linguistic classification
  
Penutian? Oregon Coast Penutian

The Oregon Coast Penutian languages are a proposed family of three small languages or language clusters on the Oregon Coast that has moderate support. Although much of their similarity is demonstrably due to language contact, linguists such as Scott DeLancey believe they may be genealogically related at a greater time depth. They are part of the much more hypothetical Penutian proposal.

Coast Oregon languages

  • Alsean
  • Yaquina, spoken on the central Oregon coast around Yaquina Bay & along the Yaquina River (central Oregon coast) by the Yaquina people
  • Alsea, spoken on the central Oregon coast around Alsea Bay and along the Alsea and Yachats rivers by the Alsea people
  • Siuslaw
  • Siuslaw dialect spoken on the central Oregon coast along the Siuslaw River and around Siltcoos Lake
  • Kuitsh dialect spoken on the central Oregon coast around Winchester Bay and along the lower Umpqua and Smith rivers.
  • Coosan
  • possibly several Hanis dialects spoken along the southern Oregon coast in the vicinity of Coos Bay and along the Coos River.
  • possibly one or two Miluk dialects spoken along the southern Oregon coast around South Slough of Coos Bay and along the lower Coquille River.

    • References

    Oregon Coast Penutian languages Wikipedia
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