Takelma

Takelma was a language isolate once spoken in United States.

Takelma · 42.4°N 123.5°W

An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.

Takelma is the language that was spoken by the Latgawa and Takelma peoples and the Cow Creek band of Upper Umpqua, in Oregon, United States. The language was extensively described by the German-American linguist Edward Sapir in his graduate thesis, The Takelma Language of Southwestern Oregon (1912). Sapir's grammar together with his Takelma Texts (1909) are the main sources of information on the language. Both are based on work carried out in 1906 with language consultant Frances Johnson (Takelma name Kʷìskʷasá:n), who lived on to become the last surviving fluent speaker. In 1934, with her death at the age of 99, the language became extinct. An English-Takelma dictionary is currently being created on the basis of printed sources with the aim of reviving the language.

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Words in Takelma

Meaning	Word	Romanization
person	yapa*
name	kwedei*
eye	cElEi*
ear	da*
nose	sin*
tooth	yukalx*
tongue	Ela*
hand	i*
blood	yom*
bone	yokh*
skin	khubi*
knee	gok*
breast	bilganx*
liver	pan*
water	xi
fire	pi*
sun	bE*
stone	dan*
mountain	som*
tree	bEm*
leaf	laph*
night	xunE*
dog	cixi*
louse	tEla*
one	mis*
two	gam*
I	gi*
you	ma*
we	gom*
drink	ug*