Wakashann.adj.
/wɑːˈkaʃən/ A. n.
A family of North American Indian languages spoken in parts of British Columbia and Washington state, including Kwakiutl and Nootka; occasionally a speaker of any of these languages.
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Wakash1856
Wakashan1929
1929 E. Sapir in Encycl. Brit. V. 139/1 The following reductions of linguistic stocks which have been proposed may be looked upon as either probable or very possible:..5, Mosan, consisting of Salish, Chimakuan and Wakashan.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 83 Swadesh undertook the comparison of..Chimakuan and Wakashan in 1953 and made impressionistic or ad hoc reconstructions for Proto-Mosan and the subincluded families.
1976 M. R. Haas in T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Americas I. i. 27 Later..Swadesh abandoned the idea of a special group known as Mosan and removed Wakashan and placed it in another large construct along with Eskimo-Aleut... The matter is still far from being resolved.
B. adj.
Belonging to or characteristic of (speakers of) this language group.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [adjective]
Dogrib1766
Nootka1784
Nootkan1790
Dog-ribbed1791
beaver1801
Okanagan1814
Carrier1820
Sitka1822
Nanaimo1827
Loucheux1828
Nass1830
Tsimshian1836
Sitkan1851
Makah1855
Snohomish1856
Wakash1856
Songhees1860
Stoney1861
Nisga'a1874
Tlingit1881
Nimpkish1886
Wakashan1892
Musqueam1902
Gitksan1917
Squamish1928
'Namgis1966
Nuu-chah-nulth1978
Nuxalk1981
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > of Mosan languages > Wakashan
Wakashan1892
1892 J. W. Powell Indian Linguistic Families N. of Mexico (52nd U.S. Congress 1 Sess. House Misc. Doc. No. 31 ) 128 Wakashan family... The above family name is based upon a vocabulary of the Wakash Indians, who, according to Gallatin..‘inhabit the island on which Nootka Sound is situated’.
1910 J. R. Swanton in F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 895/1 Wakashan dwellings were large structures of huge cedar beams and planks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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