Cayuse language

The Cayuse language (Cailloux, Willetpoos) is an extinct unclassified language formerly spoken by the Cayuse Native American tribe in the U.S. state of Oregon. The Cayuse name for themselves was Liksiyu (see Aoki 1998).

Similarities to Molala, the language of people to the south of them in central Oregon, are thought to have been due to contact.

References

• Aoki, Haruo. (1998). A Cayuse Dictionary based on the 1829 records of Samuel Black, the 1888 records of Henry W. Henshaw and others, Manuscript. The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
• Rigsby, Bruce. (1965). Linguistic Relations in the Southern Plateau, PhD dissertation, University of Oregon.

External links

• Cayuse Indian Language (Waiilatpu)
• OLAC resources in and about the Cayuse language

Languages of Oregon
Italics indicate extinct languages
Indigenous	Alsean Alsea (Alséya) Yaquina (Yakwina, Yakona) Athabaskan Siletz Dee-ni Galice language (Galice-Applegate) Chinookan Chinook Jargon Kathlamet language Lower Chinook Upper Chinook (Kiksht, Columbia Chinook, Wasco-Wishram) Coosan Hanis (Coos) Miluk (Lower Coquille) Kalapuyan Central Kalapuya (Santiam) Northern Kalapuya (Tualatin dialect (Tfalati, Atfalati)) Northern Kalapuya (Yamhill dialect (Yamell)) Yoncalla (Southern Kalapuya) Oregon Coast Penutian Siuslaw Plateu Penutian Klamath-Modoc (Klamath, Lutuamian) Molala language Sahaptian Sahaptin (Shahaptin, Sħáptənəxw, Ichishkíin Sɨ́nwit) Umatilla Salishan Tillamook language Unclassified Plains Sign Talk Plateau Sign Language Cayuse language Takelma language Uto-Aztecan Northern Paiute (Numu and Paviotso)
Non-Indigenous	Indo-European American English Dutch German Russian Spanish Swedish French Sign American Sign Language Uralic Finnish