Hanis language

Hanis
Hanis
Coos
há·nis
Native to	United States
Region	Coos Bay, Oregon
Ethnicity	Hanis people
Extinct	1972, with the death of Martha Harney Johnson
Revival	2007
Language family	Coosan Hanis;
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

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]

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]

Phonology

Vowels /i ɛ a u/ may be long or short; there is also a short /ə/.

Consonants
		Bilabial	Alveolar			Post- alveolar	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
		Bilabial	plain	sibilant	lateral	Post- alveolar	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	plain	p	t	ts	tɬ	tʃ	k	q	ʔ
	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ	tsʰ	tɬʰ	tʃʰ	kʰ	qʰ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ	tsʼ	tɬʼ	tʃʼ	kʼ	qʼ
Fricative	voiceless			s	ɬ	ʃ	x	χ	h
Fricative	voiced						ɣ
Sonorant		m	n		l	j	w

The /p t ts tɬ tʃ k q/ series are optionally voiced. /l m n/ may be syllabic. Stress is phonemic.

Sounds /k kʰ kʼ/ may be heard as palatalized [c cʰ cʼ] when before front vowels. /k kʰ kʼ x h/ may also have labialized equivalents as [kʷ kʷʰ kʼʷ xʷ hʷ].

References

^ Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas : Vol I: Maps. Vol II: Texts. Mühlhäusler, Peter, Tryon, Darrell T., Wurm, Stephen A. (Originally published 1996 ed.). Berlin ;New York: De Gruyter. 1996. ISBN 9783110134179. OCLC 838711368.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 11.
^ ^a ^b Hanis language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Whereat, Patty (June 2001). "Hanis Tlii'iis: Hanis Coos Language: A Word List" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-04-05. Fragments of the language can be scarcely found in Martha's husbands side of the family where she passed some pieces down to her grandchildren. The family name of her husbands side was the common last name of Bennett, also residents of Oregon.
^ Whereat, Don (October 1991). "Coos Language and Ethnology" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-04-05.
^ "Hanis for Beginners" (PDF). Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2014-04-06.

Frachtenberg, Leo J. (1913). Coos texts. California University contributions to anthropology (Vol. 1). New York: Columbia University Press. (Reprinted 1969 New York: AMS Press).
Frachtenberg, Leo J. (1922). Coos: An illustrative sketch. In Handbook of American Indian languages (Vol. 2, pp. 297–299, 305). Bulletin, 40, pt. 2. Washington:Government Print Office (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology).
Grant, Anthony. (1996). John Milhau's 1856 Hanis vocabularies: Coos dialectology and philology. In V. Golla (Ed.), Proceedings of the Hokan–Penutian workshop: University of Oregon, Eugene, July 1994 and University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, July 1995. Survey of California and other Indian languages (No. 9). Berkeley, CA: Survey of California and Other Languages.
Pierce, Joe E. 1971. Hanis (Coos) phonemics. Linguistics 75. 31-42.

External links

Whereat-Phillips, Patty. "Kwin tlayam lo Hanis tlii'iis - Let's Speak the Hanis Language" (PDF). Retrieved April 6, 2014. (pronunciation guide)
"Hanis for Beginners" (PDF). Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 7, 2014. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
Whereat, Patty (June 2001). "Hanis Tlii'iis: Hanis Coos Language: A Word List" (PDF). Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
"Shichils's Blog - Fun with Hanis (and a little Milluk & Siuslaw too)". Retrieved April 5, 2014.
OLAC resources in and about the Coos language

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[1] Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas : Vol I: Maps. Vol II: Texts. Mühlhäusler, Peter, Tryon, Darrell T., Wurm, Stephen A. (Originally published 1996 ed.). Berlin ;New York: De Gruyter. 1996. ISBN 9783110134179. OCLC 838711368.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

[2] Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 11.

[e18-3] Hanis language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[4] Whereat, Patty (June 2001). "Hanis Tlii'iis: Hanis Coos Language: A Word List" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-04-05. Fragments of the language can be scarcely found in Martha's husbands side of the family where she passed some pieces down to her grandchildren. The family name of her husbands side was the common last name of Bennett, also residents of Oregon.

[5] Whereat, Don (October 1991). "Coos Language and Ethnology" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-04-05.

[6] "Hanis for Beginners" (PDF). Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2014-04-06.

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Hanis
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
Language family	Coosan Hanis
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]