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Plateau and Penutian
The Sahaptian sub-family is one of the branches of the Plateau Penutian family ( which in turn may be related to a larger Penutian grouping ).
Consensus was reached at a 1994 workshop on Comparative Penutian at the University of Oregon that the families within the proposed phylum's California, Oregon, Plateau, and Chinookan clusters would eventually be shown to be genetically related.
There also seems to be convincing evidence for the Plateau Penutian grouping ( originally named Shahapwailutan by J. N. B. Hewitt and John Wesley Powell in 1894 ) which would consist of Klamath – Modoc, Molala, and the Sahaptian languages ( Nez Percé and Sahaptin ).
For example, the proto-Yokuts ( Inland Penutian ) retroflexes correspond to Klamath ( Plateau Penutian ), whereas the Proto-Yokuts dental correspond to Klamath alveolar.
Sahaptian ( also Sahaptianic, Sahaptin, Shahaptian ) is a sub-grouping of two languages 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.
Their homes bore structural similarities to the semi-subterranean homes of the Klamath and Modoc peoples to the east, who spoke languages in the Plateau Penutian family, and to those of the Shasta to the south, who spoke various Shastan languages ( which may be part of the hypothetical Hokan family ).
Plateau Penutian ( also Shahapwailutan, Lepitan ) is a family of languages spoken in northern California, reaching through central-western Oregon to northern Washington and central-northern Idaho.
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