Sahaptinn.adj.
/səˈhaptɪn/ A. n.
a. Formerly, a (member of an) American Indian people of the Snake River basin, also called the Nez Perce n. and adj.; also, any of several groupings of the Nez Percé and others believed to be linguistically related. Now applied to a number of closely related North American Indian peoples of the Columbia River basin.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Great Basin and Plateau > [noun]
snake1791
Kutenai1801
Pierced Nose1805
Shoshone1805
Tillamook1806
Wallawalla1806
Nez Perce1811
Ute1826
Paiute1827
Spokane1831
Sahaptin1836
flat-head1837
Shuswap1838
Twana1838
Salish1843
Molale1844
Washoe1846
Yakima1852
Skokomish1854
Klamath1890
1836 A. Gallatin in Trans. & Coll. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. 2 264 (map) Sahapotins.
1918 J. E. Rees Idaho Chronol. 109 Their earliest home was upon the Columbia River and when they were pushed southward the Salish called them ‘Shahaptans’, meaning ‘strangers from up the river’.
1947 B. A. De Voto Across Wide Missouri 11 Ethnologists use the name which the Flatheads bestowed on them, the Shahaptan, of uncertain meaning but perhaps a designation of the country they lived in.
b. The language or language grouping of any of these peoples.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Penutian > Plateau Penutian
Nez Perce1838
Molale1846
Wallawalla1850
Klamath1890
Modoc1890
Sahaptin1918
Yakima1940
1918 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 1 176/1 I have..gathered voluminous data supporting previously expressed contentions concerning the genetic relationship between Lutuamian, Wailatpuan, and Sahaptin.
1940 M. W. Smith Puyallup-Nisqually 22 If he spoke Sahaptin, it is also certain that he spoke Salish.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to any of these peoples or their language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Great Basin and Plateau > [adjective]
Shoshone1805
Nez Perce1811
Ute1826
Spokane1838
Sahaptin1841
Skokomish1844
Paiute1845
Salish1849
Yakima1855
Kutenai1877
Salishana1886
Shuswap1904
Wallawalla1957
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Penutian > of specific Penutian languages
Creek1725
Choctaw1796
Tsimshian1836
Muskogee1868
Tzeltal1868
Yuki1875
Klamath1881
Takelma1882
Zoque1891
Zoque–Mixe1893
Modoc1907
Yawelmani1907
Sahaptin1921
Totonacan1933
Tzotzil1939
Molale1966
Quichean1968
Mixean1977
1841 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 11 225 The first and more northern Indians of the interior may be denominated the Shahaptan Family, and comprehends..the Shahaptan, or Nez Percés..; the Kliketat..; and the Okanagan.
1846 H. Hale U.S. Exploring Exped.: Ethnogr. & Philol. 198 The South-Oregon division. To this belong the Sahaptin family (Nez-percés and Wallawallas), [etc.].
1921 E. Sapir Lang. 222 The presence of postpositions in Upper Chinook..is clearly due to the influence of neighboring Sahaptin languages.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 125 Jacobs also has published a considerable quantity of Sahaptin texts.
1971 Language 47 840 The northernmost example, the Sahaptin and Nez Perce shift of n > l, is reversed in comparison to the more southern shifts.
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