Kalapuya
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The Kalapuya or Kʼalapʰuya are a Native American people, which had eight independent groups speaking three mutually intelligible dialects. The Kalapuya tribes' traditional homelands were the Willamett
Esther Stutzman, a Kalapuya elder, leads her daughters, along with two members of the next generation, in a Kalapuya welcome song, 2009.
An engraving of a Kalapuya man, from an illustration by Alfred T. Agate, 1840s
Woodcut of a native Kalapuya man by an early explorer.
Lucindra Jackson, Yonkalla tribe, Kalapuya, ca. 1912
Kalapuyan languages
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Kalapuyan is a small extinct language family that was spoken in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon, United States. It consists of three languages.
Kalapuya
…built-up at the glottis) and the P has pulmonic fortition (a small amount of extra sound energy pushed from the lungs, as compared to plain P). The three Kalapuyan languages, in their many dialects, have contributed many words to the Chinuk Wawa language. Kalapuyan words, such as their endonym, retain their historic Kalapuyan…
One of the boulders engraved with Kalapuyan words along the paths of east Alton Baker Park in Eugene, Oregon; this one is next to the Willamette River: Whilamut (meaning, Where the river ripples and runs fast)