Alsea | |
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Alsea–Yaquina Yakonan | |
Region | Oregon |
Ethnicity | Alsea people, Yaquina people |
Extinct | 1942, with the death of John Albert |
Coast Oregon Penutian?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | aes |
aes | |
Glottolog | alse1251 |
![]() Pre-contact distribution of Alsean | |
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]