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Sahaptian

Meaning of "Sahaptian" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SAHAPTIAN

sɑːˈhæptɪən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SAHAPTIAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sahaptian is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SAHAPTIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sahaptian languages

Sahaptian is a two-language branch of the Plateau Penutian family spoken by Native American peoples in the Columbia Plateau region of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho in the northwestern United States.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SAHAPTIAN

anti-Christian · bastion · Brechtian · countian · demibastion · Faustian · fustian · Gravettian · Judaeo-Christian · Kantian · Lovecraftian · Mozartian · Philistian · Procrustean · Proustian · Shahaptian · strontian · Swiftian · Tahitian · teleostean

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SAHAPTIAN

Saguenay · saguin · sagum · Sagunto · Saguntum · sagy · Sahaptan · Sahaptin · Sahara · Saharan · saheb · sahib · sahiba · sahibah · Sahitya Akademi · Sahiwal

WORDS THAT END LIKE SAHAPTIAN

Alsatian · Christian · Croatian · Dalmatian · dietitian · Early Christian · Egyptian · Gratian · Haitian · Hetian · Laotian · Lilliputian · Martian · Mauritian · Nova Scotian · Ossetian · Sebastian · Serbo-Croatian · Titian · Venetian

Synonyms and antonyms of Sahaptian in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Sahaptian» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SAHAPTIAN

Find out the translation of Sahaptian to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of Sahaptian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Sahaptian» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

Sahaptian
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

Sahaptian
570 millions of speakers
en

English

Sahaptian
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

Sahaptian
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Sahaptian
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Sahaptian
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

Sahaptian
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

Sahaptian
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

Sahaptian
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Sahaptian
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Sahaptian
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

Sahaptian
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

Sahaptian
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Sahaptian
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Sahaptian
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

Sahaptian
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Sahaptian
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Sahaptian
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

Sahaptian
65 millions of speakers
pl

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Sahaptian
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Sahaptian
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

Sahaptian
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Sahaptian
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Sahaptian
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Sahaptian
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Sahaptian
5 millions of speakers

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TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SAHAPTIAN»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Sahaptian

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAHAPTIAN»

Discover the use of Sahaptian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Sahaptian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Approaches to Grammaticalization
The Sahaptian benefactive -'eni Nez Perce -'eni and Sahaptin -ni are identical in form to Nez Perce 'eni 'give' and Sahaptin ni 'give'. The coding of datives and benefactives by the verb give is quite common in the world's languages.4 1.2.
Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Bernd Heine, 1991
2
A Prehistory of Western North America: The Impact of ...
numic (ua) contact with molala and sahaptian To the north of the area where Maiduan:UA took place, there was contact between Numic and Proto-Sahaptian and Molala, an isolate spoken in the midst of Sahaptian. Sahaptian consists of two ...
David Leedom Shaul, 2014
3
In Honor of Mary Haas: From the Haas Festival Conference on ...
Some. Sahaptian-Klamath-Tsimshianic. lexical. sets. Scott. DeLancey,. Carol. Genetti,. and. Noel. Rude. The Sapirean version (and a fortiori all grander versions) of the Penutian hypothesis has fallen into fairly poor repute over time, primarily ...
William Shipley, 1988
4
External Possession
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Sahaptian (written with final -ian) is the name of a language family from the Columbia Basin of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It contains two closely related but mutually ...
Doris L. Payne, Immanuel Barshi, 1999
5
Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of ...
Agent case marking: Towards Proto—Sahaptian forms We turn now to comparing the languages in an attempt to reconstruct ProtoSahaptian forms and functions. Table 5 lists the case markers and their contexts for each language. Table 5.
Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop, 2013
6
Handbook of North American Indians, V. 12, Plateau
Sahaptian Numeral Systems Nez Perce Yakima Sahaptin Celilo Sahaptin Umatilla Sahaptin Walla Walla Sahaptin Oreg. Histl. Soc, Portland: left, 56122; right, 56121. Fig. 4. Klikitat and Yakima, while the Umatilla dialect shows much lexical ...
Sturtevant, William C., Walker, Deward E., Jr.
7
Deixis and Alignment: Inverse Systems in Indigenous ...
With regard to Nez Perce ergative -n(i)m and Sahaptin inverse ergative -ni-m, Rude (1991) postulates both a possible connection to a Pre-Sahaptian- Klamath locative *-m and a more certain Sahaptian etymon *-i-m, which was a cislocative.
Fernando Zúñiga, 2006
8
The Salish Language Family: Reconstructing Syntax
Certain other linguistic features are shared between Southern Interior languages and Sahaptian (cf. Aoki 1975). Nouns of Sahaptian languages distinguish an ergative case (Nez Perce -n(i)m, also genitive), an accusative case (Nez Perce ...
Paul D. Kroeber, 1999
9
Handbook of North American Indians: Languages
It and its sister language, Nez Perce, make up the Sahaptian language family ( table 1), which belongs to the great Penutian stock that is widely distributed throughout the California, Plateau, and Northwest Coast culture areas. This sketch is ...
William C. Sturtevant, Ives Goddard, 1996
10
Caw Pawa Laakni, They Are Not Forgotten: Sahaptian Place ...
Narrative enriches the many maps in the book to paint a picture of a way of life that provides context for interpreting pre-contact communities.
Jennifer Karson, John Chess, Eugene S. Hunn, 2010
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Sahaptian [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/sahaptian>. Apr 2024 ».
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