Yoncalla (also Southern Kalapuya or Yonkalla) is an extinct Kalapuyan language once spoken in southwest

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in the

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. In the 19th century it was spoken by the Yoncalla band of the

Kalapuya people The Kalapuya are a Native American people, which had eight independent groups speaking three mutually intelligible dialects. The Kalapuya tribes' traditional homelands were the Willamette Valley of present-day western Oregon in the United Sta ...

in the

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valley. It is closely related to Central Kalapuya and Northern Kalapuya, spoken in the

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to the north. The last known user of the language was Laura Blackery Albertson, who attested to being a partial speaker in 1937.

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OLAC resources in and about the Southern Kalapuya language
Kalapuyan languages Indigenous languages of Oregon Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast Languages of the United States Extinct languages of North America Languages extinct in the 1930s 1930s disestablishments in Oregon Native American history of Oregon {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub