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Name:
Yaquina
Alternate Names:
Yakwina; Yakona; Yakon
Code:
aes-yaq
Code Authority:
LINGUIST List
Code Standard:
Private Use
Families:
Isolates & Small Families
Parent Subgroup:
Alsean; Alsea; Aslean (alse)
Brief Description:
"Alsea and Yaquina, the two closely related languages that constitute the Alsean family, were formerly spoken by adjacent tribes in a small territory on the central coast of Oregon. The remnants of both tribes were removed to the Siletz Reservation in 1875, where they were absorbed into the heterogenous population and their languages fell into disuse. Some Yaquina vocabulary was documented in the 1880s, but the language appears to have become extinct soon afterward. Alsea was more thoroughly documented, primarily by Frachtenberg in 1910-13, who published a volume of narrative texts with a lexicon. Much archival material exists, including a grammatical sketch. At least one speaker survived into the 1940s, but the language has been extinct for at least 50 years." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 10
Linguist List Status: Extinct
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct
Map of Yaquina
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