Alsea language

Alsea
Alsea–Yaquina
Yakonan
RegionOregon
EthnicityAlsea people, Yaquina people
Extinct1942, with the death of John Albert
Dialects
  • Alsea
  • Yaquina
Language codes
ISO 639-3aes
aes
Glottologalse1251
Pre-contact distribution of Alsean
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Alsea /ˈælsiː/ or Alsean (also Yakonan) was two closely related speech varieties spoken along the central Oregon coast until the early 1950s.[1] They are sometimes taken to be different languages, but it is difficult to be sure given the poor state of attestation; Mithun believes they were probably dialects of a single language.[2]

  1. ^ Buckley, Eugene (1989). "The Structure of the Alsea Verb Root: Papers from the 1989 Hokan-Penutian Workshop. Ed. Scott DeLancey". University of Oregon Papers in Linguistics. 2 (17).
  2. ^ Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X