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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Penutiannoun

    a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California

  2. Penutiannoun

    a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages

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  1. Penutiannoun

    A proposed grouping of language families that includes many Native American languages of western North America, predominantly spoken at one time in Washington, Oregon, and California.

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  1. penutian

    Penutian is a proposed grouping of language families that includes many Native American languages of western North America, predominantly spoken at one time in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California. The existence of a Penutian stock or phylum has been the subject of debate among specialists. Even the unity of some of its component families has been disputed. Some of the problems in the comparative study of languages within the phylum are the result of their early extinction and limited documentation.Some of the more recently proposed subgroupings of Penutian have been convincingly demonstrated. The Miwokan and the Costanoan languages have been grouped into an Utian language family by Catherine Callaghan. Callaghan has more recently provided evidence supporting a grouping of Utian and Yokutsan into a Yok-Utian family. 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).

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  1. penutian

    Penutian is a term used in the classification of indigenous languages in the Americas. It refers to a hypothetical or proposed language family or phylum, which includes several established language families and some language isolates predominantly spoken in the western part of North America. However, the existence of a Penutian language family or phylum is not universally accepted among linguists due to lack of convincing evidence.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of penutian in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of penutian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1


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