Sahaptin (also Shahaptin) is a Plateau Penutian language of the Sahaptian sub-family spoken in a section of the northwestern plateau along the Columbia River and its tributaries in southern Washington, northern Oregon, and southwestern Idaho.
The Yakama tribal Cultural Resources program has been promoting the use of the traditional name of the language, Ichishkíin Sínwit, instead of Sahaptin which means "stranger in the land." [1]
Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
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^ Beavert, Virginia and Hargus, Sharon (in preparation) Ichishkíin Sínwit. Yakima Sahaptin Bilingual Dictionary: Sahaptin-English and English-Sahaptin. Ms., University of Washington, 512 pp.
