| Siuslaw | |
|---|---|
| Lower Umpqua | |
| Šáayušƛa Qúuiič | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Oregon |
| Ethnicity | Siuslaw people |
| Extinct | 1960[1] |
Coast Oregon Penutian?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sis |
| Glottolog | sius1254 |
| ELP | Siuslaw |
 Pre-contact distribution of Siuslaw | |
 Siuslaw is classified as Extinct by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger. [2] | |
Siuslaw/saɪˈjuːslɔː/[3] was the language of theSiuslaw people and Lower Umpqua (Kuitsh) people of Oregon. It is also known asLower Umpqua[a]. The Siuslaw language had two dialects: Siuslaw proper (Šaayušƛa) and Lower Umpqua (Quuiič).[4]
Siuslaw is currently considered to be alanguage isolate.[5] It may be part of aCoast Oregon Penutian family together withAlsea and theCoosan languages, although the validity of this family is still controversial. Proponents of the disputedPenutian phylum usually include Siuslaw as part of it, together with the other Coast Oregon Penutian languages.[1]
Published sources are byLeo J. Frachtenberg who collected data from a non-English-speaking native speaker of the Lower Umpqua dialect and herAlsean husband (who spoke it as a second language) during three months of fieldwork in 1911,[6][4][7] and byDell Hymes who worked with four Siuslaw speakers in 1954.[8]
Further archived documentation consists of a 12-page vocabulary byJames Owen Dorsey,[9] a wordlist of approximately 150 words taken by Melville Jacobs in 1935 in work with Lower Umpqua speaker Hank Johnson,[10] an audio recording of Siuslaw speaker Spencer Scott from 1941, hundreds of pages of notes from John Peabody Harrington in 1942 based on interviews with several native speakers,[11] and audio recordings of vocabulary byMorris Swadesh in 1953.
| Labial | Alveolar | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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| Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
| Affricate | ts | tɬ | tʃ | |||
| Fricative | s | ɬ | ʃ | x | h | |
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Approximant | w | l | j |
Cluster of stops/affricates + glottal stop are realized asejective consonants: [pʼ,tʼ,tɬʼ,tsʼ,tʃʼ,kʼ].
Vowels are noted as /i æ a u ə o/.[8]
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