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Takelma, n. and a.|təˈkɛlmə| Also 9 Takilma. [ad. Takelma dāagelmáˀn those dwelling along the river.] A. n. 1. A Penutian language (now extinct) of south-western Oregon. 2. The North American Indian speakers of this language. B. adj. Designating this people or their language.
1882Mag. Amer. Hist. Apr. 258 Phonetically, Takilma is more..vocalic than Kúsa. 1891J. W. Powell Indian Linguistic Families 121 The Takilma formerly dwelt in villages along upper Rogue River, Oregon... They are now included among the ‘Rogue River Indians’. 1907E. Sapir in Jrnl. Amer. Folklore Jan.–Mar. 33 The following notes regarding the ideas of the supernatural world held by the Takelma Indians were obtained..from..one of the very few full-blood survivors of the Takelmas. 1909Publ. Pennsylvania State Univ.: Anthropol. II. i. 5 The Takelma language represents one of the distinct linguistic stocks of North America. It is..a source of congratulations that enough of the folk-lore of the Takelmas could be obtained to enable one to assign these Indians a definite place in American mythology. 1912E. Sapir (title) The Takelma language of southwestern Oregon. 1941C. F. Voegelin in L. Spier et al. Lang., Culture & Personality 23 When Sapir studied Takelma in 1906 there were only a few speakers of the language remaining. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 124 Some statement should also be made concerning languages for which no speakers were found... Inland, no..Takelma, Molale, or Cayuse were found. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 859/2 Six of these [Penutian] languages—Costanoan, Cayuse, Molala, the Yakonan languages..and Takelma—are extinct. |