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TAKELMA LANGUAGE

Takelma
Spoken in: United States 
Region: Oregon, Rogue Valley along the middle course of the Rogue River
Language extinction: 19th century
Language family: Penutian (postulated)
 Oregon Penutian (postulated)
  Takelma
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: nai
ISO/FDIS 639-3: tkm 
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-​based pronunciation key.

Takelma was the language spoken by the Takelma people.

Takelma is a language isolate. Takelma has often considered to be in a Takelman (or Takelma-Kalapuyan) language family together with the Kalapuyan languages. However, a recent paper by Kendall & Tarpent (1998) finds this relationship to be unfounded. However, there is much hopeful speculation that Takelma (along with Kalapuyan and other language groups) may be part of a proposed Penutian super-family. The fruits of this research will be available some time in the future.[citation needed]

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Phonology

Vowels

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Consonants

Bi­la­bial Al­veo­lar Post-
Al­veo­lar		 Pa­la­tal Ve­lar Glot­tal
cen­tral la­te­ral voiced un-
voiced
Plosive unaspirated p t   k ʔ
aspirated pʰ tʰ   kʰ  
ejective pʼ tʼ   kʼ  
Affricate ejective   ʦ’   ʧ’  
Fricative   s ɬ ʃ   x h
Nasal m n  
Approximant   l   j w ʍ  

Words

  • mì:ʔskaʔ - one
  • kà:ʔm - two
  • xìpiní - three
  • kamkàm - four
  • dé:hal - five
  • haʔi:mìʔs - six
  • haʔi:kà:ʔm - seven
  • haʔi:xín - eight
  • haʔi:kó - nine
  • ìxti:l - ten


References

  • Sapir, Edward. 1909. Takelma Texts. University of Pennsylvania Anthropological Publications 2(1):1-263.
  • Sapir, Edward. 1922. The Takelma Language of Southwestern Oregon. In Handbook of American Indian Languages, part II, pp. 1-296. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 40.
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