VI. The Atna group.—The numerous vocabularies that represent the dialects and sub-dialects of this large class are the following—Atna Proper or Shushwap, Kullelspelm (Pend d'oreilles), Spokan, Kettlefall dialects of the Selish; Okanagan; Skitsuish (Cœur d'alène); Piskwaus; Nusdalum; Squallyamish; Kawichen; Cathlascou; Cheeheeli; Tsihaili; Kwaintl; Kwenaiwitl; Kowelitz; Nsietshawus or Killamuk. To this, the present writer adds the Billechúla.
XI. The query as the likelihood of the Straits of Fuca vocabulary having been Mozino's finds place here. The two are different: though both may have been collected by Mozino. Each is to be found in Buschmann, who, exaggerating the isolation of Wakash, Nútka, and Tlaoquatch forms of speech, separates them too decidedly. Out of nineteen words compared nine are not only alike but admitted by him to be so.
The Billechula.—This lies intermediate to the Hailtsa and Atna groups; being (apparently) more akin to the latter than the former. Of the Atna dialects, it seems most to approach the Piskwaus.
The Chinuk.—The Chinuk of which the Watlala of Hale is variety is more like the Nsietashawus or Killamuk than aught else.
The Kalapuya.—The harshness of the Kalapuya is an inference from its orthography. It is said, however, to be soft and flowing i. e. more like the Sahaptin and Shoshoni in sound than the Chinuk, and Atna.
The Jakon.—This has affinities with the Chinuk on one side, and the Lutuami on the other; i. e. it is more like these two languages than any other. The likeness, however, is of the slightest.
Miscellaneous affinities.
| English | man. |
|---|---|
| Jakon | kalt. |
| Selish | skalt-amekho. |
| Skitsuish | skailt-emukh. |
| Piscous | skaltamikho. |
| English | woman. |
| Jakon | tklaks. |
| Wallawalla | tilaki. |
| Watlala | tklkakilak. |
| Chinook | tklakel. |
| Cayoose | pin-tkhlaiu. |
| Molele | longi-tklai. |
| Killamuk | sui-tklats. |
| Shushwap | somo-tklitçk. |
| Cootanie | pe-tklki. |
| English | boy. |
| Jakon | tklom-kato. |
| Kizh | kwiti. |
| Cowelitz | kwaiitkl. |
| English | girl. |
| Jakon | tklaaksawa. |
| Kizh | takhai. |
| Satsikaa | kokwa. |
| Watlala | tklaleq. |
| Chinook | waleq. |
| Chickaili | khaaq. |
| Skwale | stkllatkl-adai. |
| Muskoghe | okulosoha. |
| English | child. |
| Jakon | mohaite. |
| Shahaptin | miaots. |
| English | mother. |
| Jakon | tkhla. |
| Chinook | tkhlianaa. |
| English | husband. |
| Jakon | sonsit. |
| Chikaili | çineis. |
| Cowelitz | skhon. |
| Killamuck | ntsuon. |
| Umpqua | skhon. |
| — do. | çhanga. |
| English | wife. |
| Jakon | sintkhlaks. |
| Cayuse | intkhlkaio. |
| Molele | longitkhlai. |
The Sahaptin.—The Sahaptin, Shoshoni and Lutuami groups are more closely connected than the text makes them.