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3 unusual facts about Kashaya language


Kashaya

Kashaya language, a distinct Pomo language on the Sonoma County Coastline, California

Kashaya language

Loans may also have superheavy CV:C syllables, since stressed vowels in the source language are typically borrowed with a long vowel: pó:spara "match", kú:lpa "fault", pé:čʰka "brick" (Spanish fósforo, culpa; Russian péčka "oven").

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Debuccalization of other stops occurs in various contexts as well.


Samuel Barrett

Barrett's system of naming the languages of the Pomoan group included seven names based on geographical terms: Northern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Southern Pomo, Eastern Pomo, Central Pomo, Southeastern Pomo, and Southwest Pomo (now more commonly referred to as Kashaya).


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