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Okwanuchu is an extinct Shastan language formerly spoken in northern California. Kroeber described the language as "peculiar. Many words are practically pure Shasta; others are distorted to the very verge of recognizability, or utterly different." Golla[1] speculates at length that the language may have mixed in another, non-Shasta language. Du Bois,[2] interviewing a survivor of a group that the Wintu called Waymaq ("north people"), who she believed were probably identical to the Okwanuchu, recorded some words, including atsa ("water").[1] Golla writes that eighteen more words are found, under the name "Wailaki [also meaning 'North People'] on McCloud", in an 1884 work by Jeremiah Curtin; he too recorded atsa ("water"), and five words not found elsewhere in Shastan.[1]

Okwanuchu
Native to	United States
Region	northern California
Ethnicity	Okwanuchu
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Hokan ? Shasta–Palaihnihan Shastan Shasta proper? Okwanuchu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	okwa1235

References

• Mithun, Marianne (1999), The Languages of Native North America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

External links

• Overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

На других языках

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- [en] Okwanuchu language

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[fr] Okwanuchu

L’okwanuchu est une langue amérindienne de la famille des langues shastanes parlée aux États-Unis, dans l'extrême Nord de la Californie. La langue est éteinte.

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[ru] Окванучу

Окванучу (Okwanuchu) — мёртвый шастанский язык и также диалект языка шаста, на котором раньше говорил народ окванучу, проживающий на территории Северной Калифорнии (юг, юго-запад и юго-восток горы Шаста, включая современные города Дансмюр, Маунт-Шаста и Макклауд, верховье реки Сакраменто вниз к Норт-Солт-Крик, дренаж Скво-Вэлли-Крик, и верховье реки Макклауд вниз по течению, где она встречается с Скво-Вэлли-Крик) в США.

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