Spokanen.adj.
/spəʊˈkan/, U.S. /spoʊˈkæn/ A. n.
1. A North American Indian people of the Salish group.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Great Basin and Plateau > [noun]
snake1791
Kutenai1801
Pierced Nose1805
Shoshone1805
Tillamook1806
Wallawalla1806
Nez Perce1811
Ute1826
Paiute1827
Spokane1831
Sahaptin1836
flat-head1837
Shuswap1838
Twana1838
Salish1843
Molale1844
Washoe1846
Yakima1852
Skokomish1854
Klamath1890
1831 R. Cox Adventures Columbia River I. ix. 197 The Spokans we found to be a quiet, honest, inoffensive tribe.
1894 Messenger Sacred Heart Jesus Apr. 273 Colonel George Wright gained a general victory over the..Spokanes.
1974 J. Fahey Flathead Indians ii. 22 Flatheads married freely among contiguous Pend Oreilles, Nez Percés, and Spokanes.
2. The language of this people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Mosan > Salish > Salish languages
Okanagan1827
Spokane1875
Nisqually1877
Twana1886
Songhees1911
Shuswap1927
Tillamook1927
Squamish1934
Snohomish1940
Lushootseed1976
Skokomish1977
1875 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States III. iii. iii. 615 The northernmost Salish language is the Shushwap.., then there are the..Pend d'Oreille, the Spokane, the Soaiatlpi, and the Okanagan, which with others spoken on the Columbia show close affinities.
1933 V. F. Ray Sanpoil & Nespelem 9 The Sanpoil spoke a dialect of Interior Salish and were surrounded by other Salish speaking peoples. All of the neighboring dialects were intelligible to them except Columbia and Spokane.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 78 Languages of sure affiliation..Spokan.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 159 In Spokane, one of the Interior Salish languages showing the greatest contrast, there are four terms that are generation-reciprocal.
B. adj.
Of or relating to this people or their language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Great Basin and Plateau > [adjective]
Shoshone1805
Nez Perce1811
Ute1826
Spokane1838
Sahaptin1841
Skokomish1844
Paiute1845
Salish1849
Yakima1855
Kutenai1877
Salishana1886
Shuswap1904
Wallawalla1957
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > of Mosan languages > Salish > of specific Salish languages
Spokane1838
Tillamook1844
Snohomish1856
Twana1886
Shuswap1904
Squamish1928
Lushootseed1977
1838 S. Parker Jrnl. Tour beyond Rocky Mtns. 284 We passed to-day several small villages of the Nez Percé and Spokein nations.
1944 N. W. Ross Westward the Women 71 She had to learn the Spokane language... This was a difficult task, as the sounds the Spokanes made in speech were like nothing so much as the sounds of husking corn.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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