Siuslaw language
Siuslaw /saɪˈjuːslɔː/[2] was the language of the Siuslaw people and Lower Umpqua (Kuitsh) people of Oregon. It is also known as Lower Umpqua; Upper Umpqua (or simply Umpqua) was an Athabaskan language. The Siuslaw language had two dialects: Siuslaw proper (Šaayušła) and Lower Umpqua (Quuiič).
Siuslaw | |
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Lower Umpqua | |
Šáayušła / Quuiič | |
Pronunciation | /saɪˈjuːslɔː/ |
Native to | United States |
Region | Oregon |
Ethnicity | Siuslaw people |
Extinct | 1970s |
Coast Oregon Penutian ?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sis |
Glottolog | sius1254 |
ELP | Siuslaw[1] |
Pre-contact distribution of Siuslaw |
Siuslaw is usually considered to belong to the Penutian phylum, and may form part of a Coast Oregon Penutian subgroup together with Alsea and the Coosan languages.[3]
Documentation
Published sources are by Leo J. Frachtenberg who collected data from a non-English-speaking native speaker of the Lower Umpqua dialect and her Alsean husband (who spoke it as a second language) during three months of fieldwork in 1911,[4][5][6] and by Dell Hymes who worked with four Siuslaw speakers in 1954.[7]
Further archived documentation consists of a 12-page vocabulary by James Owen Dorsey,[8] a wordlist of approximately 150 words taken by Melville Jacobs in 1935 in work with Lower Umpqua speaker Hank Johnson,[9] an audio recording of Siuslaw speaker Spencer Scott from 1941, hundreds of pages of notes from John Peabody Harrington in 1942 based on interviews with several native speakers,[10] and audio recordings of vocabulary by Morris Swadesh in 1953.
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Stop | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
Affricate | ts | tɬ | tʃ | |||
Fricative | s | ɬ | ʃ | x | h | |
Nasal | m | n | ||||
Approximant | w | l | j |
Cluster of stops/affricates + glottal stop are realized as ejective consonants [pʼ tʼ tɬʼ tsʼ tʃʼ kʼ].
Vowels
Vowels are noted as /i æ a u ə o/.[7]
References
- Endangered Languages Project data for Siuslaw.
- "Frequently Asked Questions". United States Forest Service. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
- Grant, A. (1997). Coast Oregon Penutian: Problems and Possibilities. International Journal of American Linguistics, 63(1), 144-156.
- Frachtenberg, Leo. (1914). Lower Umpqua texts and notes on the Kusan dialect. In Columbia University contributions to Anthropology (Vol. 4, pp. 151–150).
- Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim; Franz Boas; Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology (1917). Siuslawan (Lower Umpqua): an illustrative sketch. Govt. Printing Office. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- Frachtenberg, Leo. (1922). Siuslawan (Lower Umpqua). In Handbook of American Indian languages (Vol. 2, pp. 431–629).
- Hymes, Dell. (1966). Some points of Siuslaw phonology. International Journal of American Linguistics, 32, 328-342.
- Dorsey, James Owen. (1884). [Siuslaw vocabulary, with sketch map showing villages, and incomplete key giving village names October 27, 1884]. Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives.
- Melville Jacobs papers, 1918-1978, University of Washington Special Collections, Seattle WA.
- Harrington, John P. 1942. "Alsea, SIuslaw, Coos, Southwest Oregon Athapaskan: Vocabularies, Linguistic Notes, Ethnographic and Historical Notes." John Peabody Harrington Papers, Alaska/Northwest Coast. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
External links
Wiktionary has a word list at Appendix:Lower Umpqua word list |