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
Łəw̓ál̕məš
Native to	United States
Region	south of Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Ethnicity	Chehalis people
Extinct	(date missing)[1]
Language family	Salishan Coast Tsamosan Maritime Lower Chehalis
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cea
Glottolog	lowe1427[2]

Phonology

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Lateral	Velar		Uvular		Glottal
						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
/i/	[i], [e], [ɛ]
/a/	[aˤ], [a], [ɐ]
/ə/	[ɨ], [ə], [ʌ], [ɪ], [ʊ]
/u/	[u], [o], [ɔ]

References

1. Lower Chehalis at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lower Chehalis". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Snow, Charles (1969). A Lower Chehalis Phonology.