Lower Chehalis language
Lower Chehalis (Łəw̓ál̕məš) is a member of the Tsamosan (or Olympic Peninsula) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. In some classifications, Lower Chehalis is placed closer to Quinault than it is to Upper Chehalis.
Lower Chehalis | |
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Łəw̓ál̕məš | |
Native to | United States |
Region | south of Olympic Peninsula, Washington |
Ethnicity | Chehalis people |
Extinct | (date missing)[1] |
Salishan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | cea |
Glottolog | lowe1427 [2] |
Phonology
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Lateral | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||
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plain | lab. | plain | lab. | |||||||
Plosive | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | q | qʷ | ʔ | ||
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | kʼʷ | qʼ | qʼʷ | ||||
Affricate | plain | ts | tʃ | |||||||
ejective | tsʼ | tʃʼ | tɬʼ | |||||||
Fricative | s | ʃ | ɬ | xʷ | χ | χʷ | h | |||
Sonorant | voiced | m | n | j | l | w | ||||
glottalized | ˀm | ˀn | ˀj | ˀl | ˀw |
Vowels are represented as /i ə u a/ and /iː uː aː/.[3] Allophones are also noted.
Sound | Allophone |
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/i/ | [i], [e], [ɛ] |
/a/ | [aˤ], [a], [ɐ] |
/ə/ | [ɨ], [ə], [ʌ], [ɪ], [ʊ] |
/u/ | [u], [o], [ɔ] |
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References
- Lower Chehalis at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lower Chehalis". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Snow, Charles (1969). A Lower Chehalis Phonology.
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