Lingue plateau penutian

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Lingue plateau penutian
Parlato in Stati Uniti d'America
Classifica non nelle prime 100
Filogenesi Lingue penutian
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Distribuzione precolombiana delle lingue plateau penutian

Le lingue plateau penutian (anche shahapwailutan, lepitan) sono un gruppo di lingue penutian parlate negli Stati Uniti d'America, in un'area compresa fra il nord della California, l'Oregon centro-occidentale, il Washington settentrionale e l'Idaho centro settentrionale.

Classificazione [modifica]

Secondo Ethnologue,[1] la famiglia comprende:

Note [modifica]

  1. ^ Ethnologue report for Plateau Penutian. SIL International. URL consultato in data 22-10-2012.

Bibliografia [modifica]

  • Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
  • Campbell, Lyle; & Mithun, Marianne (Eds.). (1979). The languages of native America: Historical and comparative assessment. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • DeLancey, Scott; & Golla, Victor. (1997). The Penutian hypothesis: Retrospect and prospect. International Journal of American Linguistics, 63, 171-202.
  • Goddard, Ives (Ed.). (1996). Languages. Handbook of North American Indians (W. C. Sturtevant, General Ed.) (Vol. 17). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-048774-9.
  • Goddard, Ives. (1999). Native languages and language families of North America (rev. and enlarged ed. with additions and corrections). [Map]. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press (Smithsonian Institute). (Updated version of the map in Goddard 1996). ISBN 0-8032-9271-6.
  • Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
  • Sapir, Edward. (1929). Central and North American languages. In The encyclopædia britannica: A new survey of universal knowledge (14 ed.) (Vol. 5, pp. 138-141). London: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Ltd.