Everything about Atsugewi Language totally explained
Atsugewi is a moribund
Palaihnihan language of northeastern
California spoken by the Hat Creek and Dixie Valley people. In 1962, there were four speakers out of an ethnic group of 200, all elderly. It is now
extinct.
Astugewi is related to
Achumawi. They have long been considered as part of the hypothetical
Hokan stock, and it has been supposed that within that stock they comprise the Palaihnihan family.
The name properly is Atsugé, to which the -wi of the Achumawi or Pit River language was erroneously suffixed.
Sounds
Consonants
Atsugewi has 32 consonants. Most of these form pairs of plain and
glottalized. Plosives and affricates also have a third,
aspirated member of the series (except for the single
glottal stop). In the table below, these are represented as
C,
C’ and
Cʰ respectively.
Vowels
Atsugewi language has basically only three vowels: /a/, /o/, and /i/. /e/ is the same as /a/ and /o/ is the same as /u/.
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