Kalapuyan (also Kalapuya ) is a small extinct language family that was spoken in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon , United States. It consists of three languages.
2-493: The Kalapuya language is currently in a state of revival. Kalapuyan descendants in the southernmost Kalapuya region of Yoncalla, Oregon , published 100 copies of a comprehensive dictionary, with plans to expand. Kalapuyan consists of Kalapuyan is usually connected with the various Penutian proposals. This was originally part of an Oregon Penutian branch along with Takelma , Siuslaw , Alsea and Coosan . A special relationship with Takelma had been proposed, together forming
4-512: A " Takelma–Kalapuyan " or "Takelman" family. However, an unpublished paper by Tarpent & Kendall (1998) finds this relationship to be unfounded because of the extremely different morphological structures of Takelma and Kalapuyan. Below is a list of Proto-Kalapuyan reconstructions by Shipley (1970): Kalapuya Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
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