Northern Kalapuya

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Northern Kalapuya is an extinct Native American language variety once spoken by the Kalapuya people in the Willamette Valley of western Oregon.

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Label Occurrences
Northern Kalapuya canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Kalapuya language variety
Native American language
extinct language
indigenous language of the United States
associatedPeople Kalapuya people
associatedWith Kalapuya traditional territories
belongsTo Native languages of Oregon
Native languages of the Pacific Northwest
classificationStatus poorly documented language
continent North America
country United States
culturalRegion Northwest Coast and Plateau interface
documentationStatus limited linguistic documentation
endangeredStatus extinct language
ethnicity Kalapuya
extinctionReason language shift to English
geographicDistribution valley of the Willamette River
hasDialectContinuumWith other Kalapuyan varieties
hasSpeakersEthnicity Kalapuya
historicalPeriod pre-colonial North America
historicalRegion Willamette Valley, Oregon
linked to: Willamette Valley
ISO639Status no current ISO 639-3 code
isPartOf indigenous heritage of Oregon
languageFamily Kalapuyan
linked to: Kalapuya
languageOf Kalapuya cultural traditions
languageShiftTo English
languageType spoken language
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Oregon
partOf Kalapuyan languages
region Pacific Northwest
spokenBy Kalapuya people
spokenIn United States
Willamette Valley
western Oregon
status extinct
usedFor everyday communication among Kalapuya people
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (5)

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

Kalapuyan languages hasLanguage Northern Kalapuya
Kalapuyan languages hasSubgroup Northern Kalapuya
Yoncalla relatedTo Northern Kalapuya
Yamhill people linguisticBranch Northern Kalapuya
Central Kalapuya hasNeighboringLanguage Northern Kalapuya