Cayuse language

Cayuse
Native to United States
Region Oregon
Ethnicity Cayuse
Extinct 1930s[1]
Unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xcy
Linguist list
xcy
Glottolog cayu1241[2]

The Cayuse language (Cailloux, Willetpoos) is an extinct unclassified language formerly spoken by the Cayuse Native American tribe in the U.S. state of Oregon. The Cayuse name for themselves was Liksiyu (see Aoki 1998).

Similarities to Molala, the language of people to the south of them in central Oregon, are thought to have been due to contact.

References

  1. Cayuse at MultiTree on the Linguist List
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Cayuse". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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