Alsea-Yaquina
Alsea-Yaquina was a language isolate once spoken in United States.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Alsea or Alsean (also Yakonan) and Yaquina were two closely related speech varieties spoken along the central Oregon coast until the early 1950s. 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. They are commonly held to be components of a language isolate.
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Words in Alsea-Yaquina
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | mukwaˀsli· | |
| person | hicL3m* | |
| name | Lan* | |
| eye | hayaniyust* | |
| ear | ckwaisalyust* | |
| nose | t3sin* | |
| tooth | t3lil* | |
| tongue | stilakayust* | |
| hand | tamt3m* | |
| blood | pust3x* | |
| bone | qekus* | |
| skin | Laqusin* | |
| knee | haqantxus* | |
| breast | Lkwaw* | |
| liver | kipil* | |
| water | kilu | |
| fire | tk3lLcis* | |
| sun | pickum* | |
| star | laLt* | |
| stone | kil* | |
| mountain | ckici* | |
| tree | koc* | |
| leaf | kepau* | |
| night | qamLis* | |
| dog | cqax* | |
| fish | cudais* | |
| one | qaaickit* | |
| two | xeLk* | |
| I | qan* | |
| you | nix* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Grammar
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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