Hanis language
Extinct Native American language formerly spoken in Oregon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the language. For the Akkadian god, see Hani (god).
Hanis, or Coos, was one of two Coosan languages of Oregon, and the better documented. It was spoken north of the Miluk around the Coos River and Coos Bay. The há·nis was the Hanis name for themselves. The last speaker of Hanis was Martha Harney Johnson, who died in 1972.[3][4] Another speaker was Annie Miner Peterson, who worked with linguist Melville Jacobs to document the language.[5]
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Hanis | |
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Coos | |
há·nis | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Coos Bay, Oregon |
Ethnicity | Hanis people |
Extinct | 1972, with the death of Martha Harney Johnson[1] |
Revival | 2007 |
Coosan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | csz |
Glottolog | coos1249 |
ELP | Hanis |
Hanis is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [2] |
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As of 2007, classes in Hanis were offered by the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians.[3] A book and CD, Hanis for Beginners, were published in 2011, and a companion website is available for tribal members at hanis.org.[6]