| Kalapuya | |
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| Ethnicity | Kalapuya people | 
| Geographic distribution | Northwest Oregon | 
| Linguistic classification | Penutian ? 
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| Glottolog | kala1402 | 
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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.[1]
The Kalapuya language is currently in a state of revival. Kalapuyan descendants in the southernmost Kalapuya region of Yoncalla, Oregon published 100 copies of a comprehensive dictionary, with plans to expand.[2][3]
Family division
Kalapuyan consists of
- Kalapuyan
- Northern Kalapuya † (also known as Tualatin–Yamhill)
- Central Kalapuya † (several dialects, including Santiam)
- Yoncalla † (also known as Southern Kalapuya)
 
Genetic relations

Kalapuyan is usually connected with the various Penutian proposals, originally as part of an Oregon Penutian branch along with Takelma, Siuslaw, Alsea and Coosan.[4] A special relationship with Takelma had been proposed, together forming a "Takelma–Kalapuyan" or "Takelman" family.[5][6][7][8] However, an unpublished paper by Tarpent & Kendall (1998)[9] finds this relationship to be unfounded because of the extremely different morphological structures of Takelma and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):[10]
- no. - gloss - Proto-Kalapuyan - 1 - all - *pu- - 2 - bad - *khaskha - 3 - big - *pala - 4 - bird - *twi(ː)ca - 5 - bite - *yiːk - 6 - black - *muː - 7 - blood - *nu - 8 - blow - *puː- - 9 - bone - *ca - 10 - burn - *y- - 11 - cold - *tuːku - 12 - come - *ma- - 13 - come - - - 14 - cut - - - 15 - dig - *hu- - 16 - dog - *tal - 17 - drink - *kʷh- - 18 - dry - *chakkaluː - 19 - dull - *tu- - 20 - dust - *skuːp - 21 - earth - *nuwa - 22 - eat - *kʷVnafu - 23 - egg - *pha - 24 - eye - *kʷhillaːk, *kʷhalliːk - 25 - fall - 26 - father - *-fa- - 27 - father - *maːma - 28 - fear - *n- - 29 - fear - *yakla - 30 - feather - *lunka - 31 - few - *puː(n) - 32 - five - *waːn - 33 - flower - *puːk - 34 - four - *tapa - 35 - fruit - *kayna - 36 - give - *tiː - 37 - good - *suː - 38 - grass - *luːkʷa - 39 - green - *ci- - 40 - guts - *niːya - 41 - hair, head - *kʷaː - 42 - hand - *laːkʷa - 43 - he - *kʷawk - 44 - hear - *kapt - 45 - heart - *-uːpna - 46 - heavy - *kayt - 47 - hot - *ʔuːk - 48 - I - *chi - 49 - ice - *tic - 50 - kill - *tah- - 51 - know - *yukhu - 52 - lake - *paːɫ - 53 - leaf - *takhVɫ - 54 - left - *kay - 55 - liver - *paw - 56 - long - *puːs - 57 - louse - *t- - 58 - man - *ʔuːyhi - 59 - many - - - 60 - meat - *muːkhi, *muːkʷhi - 61 - mother - *naːna - 62 - mountain - *maːfuː - 64 - name - *kʷat - 65 - neck - *puː- -k - 66 - new - *pa(n)ɫa - 67 - nose - *nuːna - 68 - not - *waːnk - 69 - old - *yuː(k) - 70 - one - - - 71 - other - *wana - 72 - path - *kawni - 73 - person - *mim - 74 - pierce - *twa- - 75 - push - *t- - 76 - red - *c- -l - 77 - river - *cal - 78 - rope - *cal - 79 - round - *(wi)luː - 80 - saliva - *ta(w)f - 81 - say - *na(ka) - 82 - sea - *minlak - 83 - see - *huːthu - 84 - sew - *-aːkʷaː(t) - 85 - short - *-u(w)pna - 86 - sing - *kawt - 87 - sit - *tastu - 88 - sit - *yuː - 89 - sky - *yank - 90 - sleep, lie - *way - 91 - smell - *h- - 92 - snake - *(t)kaː - 93 - snow - *-uː(p)paː(y)k - 94 - split - *plVk - 95 - stand - *taːp - 96 - stone - *taː - 97 - straight - *yalk - 98 - suck - - - 99 - sun - *pyan - 100 - swell - *kuːf - 101 - swim - *kʷay(n) - 102 - tail - *tkuː - 103 - they - *k(ʷ)i(n)nVk - 104 - thick - *fip - 105 - thin - *kliʔk - 106 - think - *m- -t - 107 - this - *kʷus(a) - 108 - this - *haːs(a) - 109 - thou - *maː(ha) - 110 - three - *psin - 111 - throw - *kawi - 112 - tie - *takt - 113 - tongue - - - 114 - tooth - *ti - 115 - tree - *watVk - 116 - two - *kaːmi - 117 - walk - *ʔiːti - 118 - wash - *kaw(a)ɫ - 119 - wash - *cawC - 120 - water - *pk(y)aː - 121 - we - *stuː - 122 - what - *ʔa(k)kaː - 123 - white - *maw - 124 - wind - *-iːʈwa - 125 - wing - *wa(ː)n - 126 - ye - *mV(t)tiː - 127 - year - *miːcwa 
References
- ↑ Berman, H. (1990). An Outline of Kalapuya Historical Phonology. International Journal of American Linguistics, 56(1), 27-59.
- ↑ Reece, Myers (2022-03-06). "The quest to save Oregon's Kalapuya: 'You lose a language, you lose a culture'". oregonlive. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
- ↑ Notarianni, John (2022-04-02). "Bringing Oregon's Kalapuya language back from the brink of extinction". opb. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
- ↑ Sapir, E. (1921). A Characteristic Penutian Form of Stem. International Journal of American Linguistics, 2(1/2), 58-67.
- ↑ Frachtenberg, L. (1918). Comparative Studies in Takelman, Kalapuyan and Chinookan Lexicography, a Preliminary Paper. International Journal of American Linguistics, 1(2), 175-182.
- ↑ Swadesh, M. (1965). Kalapuya and Takelma. International Journal of American Linguistics, 31(3), 237-240.
- ↑ Shipley, W. (1969). Proto-Takelman. International Journal of American Linguistics, 35(3), 226-230.
- ↑ Kendall, D. (1997). The Takelma Verb: Toward Proto-Takelma-Kalapuyan. International Journal of American Linguistics, 63(1), 1-17.
- ↑ cited in: Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America, pp. 432-433. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ 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. Vol. 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).
External links

- The Verbal Morphology of Santiam Kalapuya (Northwest Journal of Linguistics)
