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Name: Yoncalla Type: Language Alternate Names: Southern Kalapuyan; Yonkalla; Southern Kalapuya; Ayankeld; Yonkalla Kalapuyan Code: sxk Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: LINGUIST List Families: Kalapuyan (Kalapooian) Parent Subgroup: Kalapuyan; Kalapuya; Kalapooian; Santiam-Tfalati-Yonkalla Kalapuyan (kalp) Brief Description: "Kalapuya is the general term for the three languages of the Kalapuyan family, Tualatin-Yamhill, Central Kalapuyan (or Santiam), and Yoncalla, formerly spoken throughout most of the Willamette River valley of western Oregon. All three languages had well-differentiated local dialects. The Kalapuya people suffered a catastrophic demographic decline after contact with whites, and in 1856 the few survivors were settled on the Grand Ronde Reservation, where most abandoned their native language for other Indian language or Chinook Jargon. The best documented varieties of Kalapuya are the Tualatin dialect of Tualatin-Yamhill and a variety of Santiam, but Jacobs was able to collect a substantial amount of data for all three languages, much of it from elderly speakers in the 1920s and 1930s. This documentation remains largely unpublished except for an extensive collection of narrative texts (without interlinear glossing). Most Kalapuyan varieties were extinct before 1940, but a speaker of Santiam lived into the 1950s." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 16

Endangerment Status

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Linguist List Status: Extinct