Plateau Penutian languages
Plateau Penutian (also Shahapwailutan) is a family of languages in spoken in northern California, reaching through central-western Oregon to northern Washington and central-northern Idaho.
Family division
Plateau Penutian consists of four languages:
- Sahaptian languages
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