Washo /ˈwɒʃoʊ/ (or Washoe; endonym wá꞉šiw ʔítlu) is an endangered Native American language isolate spoken by the Washo on the California–Nevada border...
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Washoe people (redirect from Washo people)
name "Washoe" or "Washo" (as preferred by themselves) is derived from the autonym Waashiw (wa·šiw or wá:šiw) in the Washo language or from Wašišiw (waší:šiw)...
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Voiceless bilabial nasal (category Articles containing Washo-language text)
ISSN 0933-7636. Jacobsen, William Horton (15 August 1964). A grammar of the Washo language (PhD). University of California, Berkeley – via eScholarship. Jacobson...
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Truckee River (category Articles containing Washo-language text)
Northern Paiute band called the Kuyui Dükadü (cui-ui-fish-eaters). In the Washo language, different parts of the river have different names. Two names, ‘Át’abi...
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Pyramid Lake (Nevada) (category Articles containing Washo-language text)
from the lake. The Shoshone and Washo also regularly fished in the lake. According to traditional narratives, the Washo specifically were given fishing...
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Lake Tahoe (category Articles containing Washo-language text)
Lake Tahoe (/ˈtɑːhoʊ/; Washo: Dáʔaw) is a freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the Western United States, straddling the border between California...
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are single languages or shallow families. Hokan Chimariko Yana/Yahi Karuk Shasta–Palaihnihan Shastan (4) Palaihnihan (2) Pomoan (7) Washo Esselen Salinan...
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Mirativity (category Articles containing Turkish-language text)
cross-linguistic term, which he adapted from Jacobsen's (1964) description of the Washo language. According to DeLancey (1997), Turkish, Hare, Sunwar, Lhasa Tibetan...
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Pinus lambertiana (category Articles containing Washo-language text)
dawn, he and his wife discover the infant Edechewe near their bed. The Washo language has a word for sugar pine, simt'á:gɨm, and also a word for "sugar pine...
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