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FAMILY DIVISION


Sahaptian includes 2 languages

:1. Nez Perce (a.k.a. Nez Percé, Nezperce)
  • Upper Nez Perce

  • Lower Nez Perce

    • :2. Sahaptin (a.k.a. Shahaptin)

  • Northern Sahaptin group

  • Northwest Sahaptin dialect cluster

  • Northeast Sahaptin dialect cluster

  • Southern Sahaptin group (a.k.a. Columbia River cluster)


Nez Perce has two main Varieties (Upper and Lower). Sahaptin has considerably greater internal diversity with several different varieties.

Note that the terms ''Sahaptian'' (the family) and ''Sahaptin'' (the language) have often been confused and used interchangeably in the literature.


TRIBES



BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Aoki, Haruo. (1966). Nez Percé vowel harmony and proto-Sahaptian vowels. ''Language'', ''42'', 759-767.

  • Aoki, Haruo. (1970). ''Nez Percé grammar''. University of California publications in linguistics (Vol. 62). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-09259-7.

  • Mithun, Marianne. (1999). ''The languages of Native North America''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.

  • Rigsby, Bruce. (1965). Continuity and change in Sahaptian vowel systems. ''International Journal of American Linguistics'', ''31'', 306-311.

  • Rigsby, Bruce; & Silverstein, Michael. (1969). Nez Percé vowels and proto-Sahaptian vowel harmony. ''Language'', ''45'', 45-59.