Kalapuyan languages

Kalapuyan (also Kalapuya) is a small extinct language family that was spoken in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon, United States. It consists of three languages.[2]

Kalapuya
EthnicityKalapuya people
Geographic
distribution
Northwest Oregon
Linguistic classificationPenutian ?
  • Kalapuya
Glottologkala1402[1]

Family division

Kalapuyan consists of

1. Northern Kalapuya (also known as Tualatin–Yamhill)
2. Central Kalapuya (several dialects, including Santiam)
3. Yoncalla (also known as Southern Kalapuya)

Genetic relations

One of the boulders engraved with Kalapuyan words along the paths of east Alton Baker Park in Eugene, Oregon; this one is next to the Willamette River: Whilamut (meaning, Where the river ripples and runs fast)

Kalapuyan is usually connected with the various Penutian proposals, originally as part of an Oregon Penutian branch along with Takelma, Siuslaw, Alsea and Coosan.[3] A special relationship with Takelma had been proposed, together forming a "Takelma–Kalapuyan" or "Takelman" family.[4][5][6][7] However, an unpublished paper by Tarpent & Kendall (1998)[8] finds this relationship to be unfounded because of the extremely different morphological structures of Takelma and Kalapuyan.

Proto-language

Below is a list of Proto-Kalapuyan reconstructions by Shipley (1970):[9]

no.glossProto-Kalapuyan
1all*pu-
2bad*khaskha
3big*pala
4bird*twi(ː)ca
5bite*yiːk
6black*muː
7blood*nu
8blow*puː-
9bone*ca
10burn*y-
11cold*tuːku
12come*ma-
13come-
14cut-
15dig*hu-
16dog*tal
17drink*kʷh-
18dry*chakkaluː
19dull*tu-
20dust*skuːp
21earth*nuwa
22eat*kʷVnafu
23egg*pha
24eye*kʷhillaːk, *kʷhalliːk
25fall
26father*-fa-
27father*maːma
28fear*n-
29fear*yakla
30feather*lunka
31few*puː(n)
32five*waːn
33flower*puːk
34four*tapa
35fruit*kayna
36give*tiː
37good*suː
38grass*luːkʷa
39green*ci-
40guts*niːya
41hair, head*kʷaː
42hand*laːkʷa
43he*kʷawk
44hear*kapt
45heart*-uːpna
46heavy*kayt
47hot*ʔuːk
48I*chi
49ice*tic
50kill*tah-
51know*yukhu
52lake*paːɫ
53leaf*takhVɫ
54left*kay
55liver*paw
56long*puːs
57louse*t-
58man*ʔuːyhi
59many-
60meat*muːkhi, *muːkʷhi
61mother*naːna
62mountain*maːfuː
64name*kʷat
65neck*puː- -k
66new*pa(n)ɫa
67nose*nuːna
68not*waːnk
69old*yuː(k)
70one-
71other*wana
72path*kawni
73person*mim
74pierce*twa-
75push*t-
76red*c- -l
77river*cal
78rope*cal
79round*(wi)luː
80saliva*ta(w)f
81say*na(ka)
82sea*minlak
83see*huːthu
84sew*-aːkʷaː(t)
85short*-u(w)pna
86sing*kawt
87sit*tastu
88sit*yuː
89sky*yank
90sleep, lie*way
91smell*h-
92snake*(t)kaː
93snow*-uː(p)paː(y)k
94split*plVk
95stand*taːp
96stone*taː
97straight*yalk
98suck-
99sun*pyan
100swell*kuːf
101swim*kʷay(n)
102tail*tkuː
103they*k(ʷ)i(n)nVk
104thick*fip
105thin*kliʔk
106think*m- -t
107this*kʷus(a)
108this*haːs(a)
109thou*maː(ha)
110three*psin
111throw*kawi
112tie*takt
113tongue-
114tooth*ti
115tree*watVk
116two*kaːmi
117walk*ʔiːti
118wash*kaw(a)ɫ
119wash*cawC
120water*pk(y)aː
121we*stuː
122what*ʔa(k)kaː
123white*maw
124wind*-iːʈwa
125wing*wa(ː)n
126ye*mV(t)tiː
127year*miːcwa
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References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kalapuyan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Berman, H. (1990). An Outline of Kalapuya Historical Phonology. International Journal of American Linguistics, 56(1), 27-59.
  3. Sapir, E. (1921). A Characteristic Penutian Form of Stem. International Journal of American Linguistics, 2(1/2), 58-67.
  4. Frachtenberg, L. (1918). Comparative Studies in Takelman, Kalapuyan and Chinookan Lexicography, a Preliminary Paper. International Journal of American Linguistics, 1(2), 175-182.
  5. Swadesh, M. (1965). Kalapuya and Takelma. International Journal of American Linguistics, 31(3), 237-240.
  6. Shipley, W. (1969). Proto-Takelman. International Journal of American Linguistics, 35(3), 226-230.
  7. Kendall, D. (1997). The Takelma Verb: Toward Proto-Takelma-Kalapuyan. International Journal of American Linguistics, 63(1), 1-17.
  8. cited in: Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America, pp. 432-433. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  9. Shipley, William. 1970. Proto-Kalapuyan. In Swanson, Jr., Earl H. (ed.), Languages and Cultures of Western North America, 97-106. Pocatello: Idaho State University Press.

Further reading

  • Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
  • Goddard, Ives (Ed.). (1996). Languages. Handbook of North American Indians (W. C. Sturtevant, General Ed.) (Vol. 17). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-048774-9.
  • Jacobs, Melville (1945). Kalapuya Texts. University of Washington Publications in Anthropology. Volume 11. Seattle: University of Washington.
  • Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
  • Sturtevant, William C. (Ed.). (1978–present). Handbook of North American Indians (Vol. 1-20). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. (Vols. 1-3, 16, 18-20 not yet published).
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