Hanis, orCoos, was one of twoCoosan languages of Oregon, and the better documented. It was spoken north of the Miluk around theCoos River andCoos Bay.há·nis was the Hanis name for themselves. The last speaker of Hanis was Martha Harney Johnson, who died in 1972.[3][4] Another speaker wasAnnie Miner Peterson, who worked with linguistMelville Jacobs to document the language.[5]
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^Whereat 2001: "Fragments of the language can be scarcely found in Martha's husbands side of the family where she passed some pieces down to her grandchildren. The family name of her husbands side was the common last name of Bennett, also residents of Oregon."
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