Show peculiar language of oregon indians portland ore professor lee of the smithsonian institution ution at washington who has just completed a study of the alsea tribe of indians in lincoln county and the in curry county says the albeas have a language distinct from all other of the fifty seven basic tongues of the american indians he says it is one of the twelve known languages cing gender in the verb that is the same action by a male and female is designated by a different term this peculiarity is shared by certain inhabitants of northern asia those of a small section of southern asia and by the kaffits of south africa |