NOUN
- a Penutian language spoken by the Maidu
- a member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California
How To Use Maidu In A Sentence
- She had grown up both bilingual and bicultural, speaking Maidu with her mother and English with her father, a Dutch settler who had come Wisconsin by covered wagon as a child.
- Like many Indian languages, it is polysynthetic, meaning that what we would express in a sentence the Maidu express in a single word containing a long string of suffixes.
- The question of how many fluent Maidu speakers remain is a touchy one, not least because many Maidu resent the notion that a white ethnolinguist may be the keeper of the linguistic flame.
- A police station in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri has been destroyed in an attack blamed on the Boko Haram Islamic sect.
- No wonder the Maidu called the buttes "esto yamani," or Www.appeal-democrat.com - News :
