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Eel River Athabaskan

Eel River Athabaskan was an Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit language once spoken in United States.

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Eel River Athabaskan · 39.2°N 123.3°W

Wailaki, also known as Eel River, is an extinct and revitalizing Athabaskan language spoken by the people of the Round Valley Reservation of northern California, one of four languages belonging to the California Athabaskan cluster of the Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages. Dialect clusters reflect the four Wailaki-speaking peoples, the Sinkyone, Wailaki, Nongatl, and Lassik, of the Eel River confederation. While less documented than Hupa, it is considered to be close to it. It went dormant in the 1940s, but in modern times it is being revived.

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Words in Eel River Athabaskan

MeaningWordRomanization
personketa*
eyena7*
eargE7*
nosenCiS*
handla*
bloodseliN*
bonecin*
skinsic*
breastco7*
watertoo
firekoN7*
sunSa*
starsiN7*
stonese*
treeCiC*
leaftaN7*
nightkite7*
fishLok*
oneLaiha7*
twonaka7*
ISi*
youniN*
weNhiN*
drinknaN*
seecin*
hearcaN7*
dieCet*
comedaS*
fullbiN*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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