Siuslaw

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

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Siuslaw canonical 8
Siuslaw proper 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language ⓘ
Penutian language ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ
basicWordOrder verb–subject–object ⓘ
consonantInventory moderately large ⓘ
country United States ⓘ
culturalRegion Northwest Coast ⓘ
documentationType grammatical notes ⓘ
texts ⓘ
word lists ⓘ
documentedBy Dell Hymes ⓘ
Leo J. Frachtenberg ⓘ
Melville Jacobs ⓘ
ethnicity Lower Umpqua people ⓘ
linked to: Umpqua tribes

Siuslaw people ⓘ
extinctionCentury 20th century ⓘ
geographicArea Oregon ⓘ
Pacific Northwest ⓘ
glottocode sius1254 ⓘ
glottologName Siuslaw ⓘ
hasDialect Lower Umpqua ⓘ
Siuslaw proper ⓘ
linked to: Siuslaw
hasPhonemicContrast glottalized consonants ⓘ
vowel length ⓘ
hasResourceType archival recordings ⓘ
field notes ⓘ
includedIn Survey of California and Other Indian Languages ⓘ
ISO639-3 sis ⓘ
languageCodeStandard ISO 639-3 ⓘ
languageEndangerment moribund by early 20th century ⓘ
languageFamily Siuslaw family ⓘ
linked to: Siuslaw people
languageTypology polysynthetic language ⓘ
lastFluentSpeakers died in 20th century ⓘ
linguisticArea Oregon Coast linguistic area ⓘ
morphologyType polysynthetic ⓘ
neighboringLanguage Alsea ⓘ
Coos ⓘ
linked to: Coosan

Kalapuya ⓘ
Takelma ⓘ
linked to: Takelma people
possibleFamily Penutian ⓘ
linked to: Penutian languages
region central Oregon coast ⓘ
spokenAlong Siuslaw River ⓘ
Umpqua River (lower reaches) ⓘ
linked to: Umpqua River
spokenBy Siuslaw people ⓘ
status extinct ⓘ
usedFor ritual speech ⓘ
traditional narratives ⓘ
vowelInventory small ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

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

Siuslaw language → hasDialects → Siuslaw proper ⓘ
linked to: Siuslaw
Oregon Penutian → hasLanguage → Siuslaw ⓘ
Siuslaw → glottologName → Siuslaw ⓘ
Siuslaw → hasDialect → Siuslaw proper ⓘ
linked to: Siuslaw
Tillamook → neighboringGroup → Siuslaw ⓘ