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Chimariko language, the Glossary

Chimariko is an extinct language isolate formerly spoken in northern Trinity County, California, by the inhabitants of several independent communities.^[1]

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1950s disestablishments in the United States
Hokan languages
Language isolates of North America
Languages extinct in the 1950s

Abalone

Abalone (or; via Spanish abulón, from Rumsen aulón) is a common name for any small to very large marine gastropod mollusc in the family Haliotidae, which once contained six subgenera but now contains only one genus Haliotis.

See Chimariko language and Abalone

Acer macrophyllum

Acer macrophyllum, the bigleaf maple or Oregon maple, is a large deciduous tree in the genus Acer.

See Chimariko language and Acer macrophyllum

Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Alfred Kroeber

Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist.

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Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

See Chimariko language and Alveolar consonant

Amelanchier

Amelanchier, also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry (or just sarvis), juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum, wild-plum or chuckley pear,A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants: is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family (Rosaceae).

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Bancroft Library

The Bancroft Library is the primary special-collections library of the University of California, Berkeley.

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Big Bar, Trinity County, California

Big Bar (Chimariko: Hičʰeqʰut) is an unincorporated community in Trinity County, California, United States.

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Burnt Ranch, California

Burnt Ranch is a census-designated place (CDP) in Trinity County, California.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Camassia quamash

Camassia quamash, commonly known as camas, kwetlal, small camas, common camas, common camash or quamash, is a perennial herb.

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Cedar Flat, California

Cedar Flat (Chimariko: Hots'i'nakčʰa xotai) is a census-designated place (CDP) in eastern Placer County, California, United States.

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Central vowel

A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Chimariko people

The Chimariko (Chimariko language: cʼʸˈimar, tʼʸimar, čimar, čʼimar or ǯimar - ″person / Indian″) are an Indigenous people of California, who originally lived in a narrow, 20-mile section of canyon on the Trinity River in Trinity County in northwestern California.

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Chlorogalum pomeridianum

Chlorogalum pomeridianum, the wavy-leafed soap plant, California soaproot, or Amole, is the most common and most widely distributed of the soap plants, soaproots or amoles, which make up the genus Chlorogalum of flowering plants.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

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Cottontail rabbit

Cottontail rabbits are in the Sylvilagus genus, which is in the Leporidae family.

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Coyote

The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf is a species of canine native to North America.

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Decimal

The decimal numeral system (also called the base-ten positional numeral system and denary or decanary) is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers.

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Del Loma, California

Del Loma (corruption of de la Loma, Spanish for "of the Hill") is an unincorporated community in Trinity County, California, United States.

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Denny, California

Denny, California refers to two little mining settlements named Denny in northwestern Trinity County, one in the upper New River watershed within the Trinity Alps Wilderness Area and the other twenty miles downstream along a one-way county roadway.

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Dental consonant

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge.

See Chimariko language and Dental consonant

Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir (January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States.

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Extinct language

An extinct language is a language with no living descendants that no longer has any first-language or second-language speakers.

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Fauna

Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

See Chimariko language and Fricative

Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

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Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

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Hawkins Bar, California

Hawkins Bar is an unincorporated community in Trinity County, California, United States.

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Hayfork, California

Hayfork is a census-designated place (CDP) in Trinity County, California, United States.

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Helena, California

Helena is a ghost town in unincorporated Trinity County, California, United States.

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Hokan languages

The Hokan language family is a hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken mainly in California, Arizona, and Baja California. Chimariko language and Hokan languages are indigenous languages of California.

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Hyampom, California

Hyampom (Wintun: Xaayin-pom) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Trinity County, California, US.

See Chimariko language and Hyampom, California

Instrumental case

In grammar, the instrumental case (abbreviated or) is a grammatical case used to indicate that a noun is the instrument or means by or with which the subject achieves or accomplishes an action.

See Chimariko language and Instrumental case

John Peabody Harrington

John Peabody Harrington (April 29, 1884 – October 21, 1961) was an American linguist and ethnologist and a specialist in the indigenous peoples of California. Chimariko language and John Peabody Harrington are indigenous languages of California.

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Junction City, California

Junction City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Trinity County, California.

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Karuk

The Karuk people are an indigenous people of California, and the Karuk Tribe is one of the largest tribes in California.

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Karuk language

Karuk or Karok (Araráhih or Ararahih'uripih) is the traditional language of the Karuk people in the region surrounding the Klamath River, in Northwestern California. Chimariko language and Karuk language are Hokan languages, indigenous languages of California and language isolates of North America.

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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

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Language isolate

A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages.

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Maidu language

Maidu, also Northeastern Maidu or Mountain Maidu, is an extinct Maiduan language of California, United States. Chimariko language and Maidu language are indigenous languages of California.

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Manzanita

Manzanita is a common name for many species of the genus Arctostaphylos.

See Chimariko language and Manzanita

Mid vowel

A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.

See Chimariko language and Mid vowel

Nicotiana quadrivalvis

Nicotiana quadrivalvis is a species of wild tobacco known as Indian tobacco.

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Notholithocarpus

Notholithocarpus densiflorus, commonly known as the tanoak or tanbark-oak, is a broadleaf tree in the family Fagaceae, and the type species of the genus Notholithocarpus.

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Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

See Chimariko language and Open vowel

Palaihnihan languages

Palaihnihan (also Palaihnih) is a language family of northeastern California. Chimariko language and Palaihnihan languages are Hokan languages and indigenous languages of California.

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Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

See Chimariko language and Plosive

Pomoan languages

The Pomoan, or Pomo, languages are a small family of seven languages indigenous to northern California spoken by the Pomo people, whose ancestors lived in the valley of the Russian River and the Clear Lake basin. Chimariko language and Pomoan languages are Hokan languages and indigenous languages of California.

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Postalveolar consonant

Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.

See Chimariko language and Postalveolar consonant

Prefix

A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.

See Chimariko language and Prefix

Prunus virginiana

Prunus virginiana, commonly called bitter-berry, chokecherry, Virginia bird cherry, and western chokecherry (also black chokecherry for P. virginiana var. demissa), is a species of bird cherry (''Prunus'' subgenus ''Padus'') native to North America.

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Pteridium aquilinum

Pteridium aquilinum, commonly called bracken, brake, pasture brake, common bracken, and also known as eagle fern, is a species of fern occurring in temperate and subtropical regions in both hemispheres.

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Quercus kelloggii

Quercus kelloggii, the California black oak or Kellogg oak, is an oak in the red oak section (genus Quercus, section Lobatae, series Agrifoliae) native to western North America.

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Quinary

Quinary (base 5 or pental) is a numeral system with five as the base.

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Red-tailed hawk

The red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies.

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Reduplication

In linguistics, reduplication is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.

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Retroflex consonant

A retroflex, apico-domal, or cacuminal consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate.

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Ribes

Ribes is a genus of about 200 known species of flowering plants, most of them native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Roland Burrage Dixon

Roland Burrage Dixon (November 6, 1875 – December 19, 1934) was an American anthropologist.

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Rubus parviflorus

Rubus parviflorus, commonly called thimbleberry, (also known as redcaps) is a species of Rubus native to northern temperate regions of North America.

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Rubus ursinus

Rubus ursinus is a North American species of blackberry or dewberry, known by the common names California blackberry, California dewberry, Douglas berry, Pacific blackberry, Pacific dewberry and trailing blackberry.

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Sally Noble

Sally Noble was the last speaker of the Chimariko language.

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Salyer, California

Salyer (Hupa: Miy-me’) is an unincorporated community in Trinity County, California.

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Sambucus cerulea

Sambucus cerulea or Sambucus nigra ssp.

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Sequoia sempervirens

Sequoia sempervirensSunset Western Garden Book, 1995: 606–607 is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae).

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Shasta language

The Shasta language is an extinct Shastan language formerly spoken from northern California into southwestern Oregon. Chimariko language and Shasta language are extinct languages of North America and indigenous languages of California.

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Shastan languages

The Shastan (or Sastean) family consisted of four languages, spoken in present-day northern California and southern Oregon. Chimariko language and Shastan languages are extinct languages of North America, Hokan languages and indigenous languages of California.

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Shoshoni language

Shoshoni, also written as Shoshoni-Gosiute and Shoshone (Shoshoni: soni' ta̲i̲kwappe, newe ta̲i̲kwappe or neme ta̲i̲kwappeh), is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family, spoken in the Western United States by the Shoshone people.

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Siouan languages

Siouan or Siouan–Catawban is a language family of North America that is located primarily in the Great Plains, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and southeastern North America with a few other languages in the east.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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Sonorant

In phonetics and phonology, a sonorant or resonant is a speech sound that is produced with continuous, non-turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; these are the manners of articulation that are most often voiced in the world's languages.

See Chimariko language and Sonorant

Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

The Survey of California and Other Indian Languages (originally the Survey of California Indian Languages) at the University of California at Berkeley documents, catalogs, and archives the indigenous languages of the Americas. Chimariko language and Survey of California and Other Indian Languages are extinct languages of North America and indigenous languages of California.

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Trinity Alps

The Trinity Alps are a mountain range in Trinity County and Siskiyou County in Northern California.

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Trinity County, California

Trinity County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Trinity River (California)

The Trinity River (Yurok: Hoopa or Hupa; Hupa: hun') is a major river in northwestern California in the United States and is the principal tributary of the Klamath River.

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Tsnungwe

The Tsnungwe (current Hupa-language orthography, own name: - "Tse:ning-din (Ironside Mountain) People") or Tsanunghwa are a Native American people indigenous to the modern areas of the lower South Fork Trinity River, Willow Creek, Salyer, Burnt Ranch (/) and New River along the Trinity River ('river') in Trinity and Humboldt County in California.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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Uvular consonant

Uvulars are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants.

See Chimariko language and Uvular consonant

Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").

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Vitis californica

Vitis californica, with common names California wild grape, Northern California grape, and Pacific grape, is a wild grape species widespread across much of California as well as southwestern Oregon.

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Weaverville, California

Weaverville (Chimariko: Ho'raqtu) is a census-designated place and the county seat of Trinity County, California, United States.

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Wiktionary

Wiktionary (rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.

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Willow

Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus Salix, comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions.

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Wintu language

Wintu is a Wintu language which was spoken by the Wintu people of Northern California. Chimariko language and Wintu language are indigenous languages of California.

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Yana language

The Yana language (also Yanan) is an extinct language that was formerly spoken by the Yana people, who lived in north-central California between the Feather and Pit rivers in what is now the Shasta and Tehama counties. Chimariko language and Yana language are extinct languages of North America, Hokan languages, indigenous languages of California and language isolates of North America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimariko_language

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Chimariko language, the Glossary

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1950s disestablishments in the United States

Hokan languages

Language isolates of North America

Languages extinct in the 1950s

References