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Alsea /ˈælsiː/ or
Alsean (also
Yakonan) and
Yaquina were two
closely related speech varieties spoken along the
central Oregon coast until the
early 1950s...
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people are all one tribe, and
speak the same language.
Today however, the
Yakonan language branch is
divided into
Alsean and Siuslawan. The
Alsean people...
- Americans.
There were 19
Yaquina in 1910.
Their language was one of the
Yakonan languages. The
Yaquina lived around the
Yaquina River and
Yaquina Bay,...
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Location of the
mouth of the
Siuslaw River in
Oregon Etymology From a
Yakonan name for a locality,
tribe or
chief Location Country United States State...
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grouping Coosan (Coos)
Siuslaw Takelma Kalapuyan (Kalapuya)
Alsean (
Yakonan)
Chinookan family (Chinook)
Tsimshianic family (Tsimshian) By the time...
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Country Alsea, Siuslaw,
Yaquina and
Luckton 6,000 1780 110 (tribes of
Yakonan language family)
James Mooney and
James Owen
Dorsey 115 NE
Woodlands Old...
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language was "Wusi" or "Wusitslum".) In 1780 the
total number of "
Yakonan",
which included tribes from
Yaquina Bay to the Siuslaw, was estimated...
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Washoan (=Washo) 52.
Weitspekan (=Yurok) 53.
Wishoskan (=Wiyot) 54.
Yakonan (=Siuslaw & Alsean) 55.
Yanan 56.
Yukian 57.
Yuman 58. Zuñian (=Zuni)...
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materials on the
Athabaskan (also
called Dene), Coosan, Takilman, and
Yakonan language families or "stocks", some of
which were
spoken by
small groups...
- are all
named for the
Yaquina people, a
small Native American tribe of
Yakonan speakers who
lived near the bay. In the late 19th century,
Yaquina City...
