Hanis language

This article is about Hanis language. For the Akkadian god, see Hani (god).

Hanis
Coos
Pronunciation	há·nis
Region	Coos Bay, Oregon
Extinct	1972
Language family	Coosan Hanis
Language codes
ISO 639-3	csz

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 Johnson, who died in 1972.

Phonology

m	n
pʰ	tʰ	tsʰ	tɬʰ	tʃʰ	kʰ	qʰ
p	t	ts	tɬ	tʃ	k	q	ʔ
pʼ	tʼ	tsʼ	tɬʼ	tʃʼ	kʼ	qʼ
		s	ɬ	ʃ	x	χ	h
w			l	j	ɣ

The /p t ts tɬ tʃ k q/ series are optionally voiced. /l m n/ may be syllabic. Vowels /i e a u/ may be long or short; there is also a short /ə/. Stress is phonemic.

References

• 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.