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Penutian

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Noun

1. penutian

a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California

2. penutian

a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Penutian

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noun
1. 
a family of North American languages of the Pacific coast
2. 
a phylum of languages of North and South America, including Araucanian, Chinook, Mayan, and Sahaptin

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Penutian

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noun
a group of remotely related language families, consisting of North American Indian languages of California, British Columbia, and New Mexico

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Penutian

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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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