On a etymology of Wiyot (the.k.the. Wishosk), a ensuing is from either Campbell (1997):

"Wiyot is from wíyat, the native name for the Eel River delta, which also referred to one of the three principal groups of Wiyots (Elsasser 1978:162).

"A connection of Wiyot & Yurok in northern California (which together were formerly known as 'Ritwan, when Dixon & Kroeber's [1913] grouping of the 2 when one of their extra remote Californian equities) sustaining Algonquian was first proposed by Sapir (1913) and was quite controversial at that period (watch Michelson 1914, 1915; Sapir 1915a, 1915b; watch as well Chapter Two), however a relationship has later been demonstrated to the satisfaction of completely (view Haas 1958; Teeter 1964a; Goddard 1975, 1979, 1990). Prior to 1850 the Yurok lived on the lower Klamath River. A Wiyot (earliest known as Wishosk) sleep in the Humboldt Bay area, in the redwood belt; the previous fully fluent speaker died inside 1962 (Teeter 1964b). Numbers of scholars own commented that although Wiyot & Yurok come neighbors inside northern California, it seem does'nt to have a nearer relationship by owning every more than either has by having Algonquian...." (Campbell 1997:152).

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