Penutian mythology of the ribs

Penutian mythology of the ribs

The mythology penutian of the coasts includes the following Native American peoples: Coo, Umpqua, Siuslaw, Alsea.

The Coos languages (Where coosan Where kusanlisten)) is a family of Native American languages that were spoken along the southern Pacific coast of Oregon. They are now extinct.

The Coos languages have been included in the Penutian hypothesis within a subgroup of the languages penutians from the Oregon Coast, with the Alsean languages and Siuslaw.

The Coos are a Native American people of Oregon, United States and one of three tribes in the confederacy of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw tribes. They live on the southwest Pacific coast of the state. The Coos language is extinct or nearly extinct.

Edward Sapir included the Alsean languages in his hypothesis of Penutian languages, within the Oregon Coast Penutian language subgroup. The idea that Alsea is related to the Siuslawan languages and the Coos languages is old and was already defended by Frachtenberg (1913) and Jacobs (1939).