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- proper noun The
native language spoken by the Pit River people of present-dayCalifornia .
Etymologies
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An anglicization of the name of the Fall River band, ajúmmááwí, from ajúmmá “river”.
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The site Alturas now occupies was inititally an Achumawi (Pit River) village known as Kosealekte.
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