n.
A proposed stock of North American Indian languages spoken in Pacific coastal areas from California into British Columbia.
[From the reconstructed words for "two" in two of its subgroups.]
Penutian
Dictionary:
Pe·nu·ti·an (pə-nū'tē-ən, -shən) 
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n.
A proposed stock of North American Indian languages spoken in Pacific coastal areas from California into British Columbia.
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The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California
Meaning #2:
a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages
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- Klamath (Native American people)
- Maidu (Native American people)
- Miwok (Native American people)
- Yokuts (tribe, California)
- Cayuse (tribe, North America)
- Chinook (indigenous people of North America)
- Yakima (indigenous people of North America)
- Modoc (tribe, North America)
- Tsimshian (tribe, North America)
- Nez Percé (tribe, North America)
- mahala (word origin: United States)
- Chinook wind (word origin: United States)
- Native American languages (language)
- Penutian languages
