Quinault language
Quinault (Kʷínaył) is a member of the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages.
Quinault | |
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Kʷínaył | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Olympic Peninsula, Washington |
Ethnicity | 1,500 Quinault people (1977)[1] |
Extinct | (date missing)[1] half a dozen know some vocabulary (2007)[1] |
Salishan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | qun |
Glottolog | quin1251 [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 | voiceless | s | ʃ | ɬ | x | xʷ | χ | χʷ | h | |
voiced | ɣ | |||||||||
Sonorant | m | n | j | l | w |
A voiced fricative sound /ɣ/ may also be heard as a voiced stop [ɡ].
Vowels are represented as /i ə u a/ and /iː uː aː/.[3]
gollark: ^
gollark: Yes, take the OCL and do the windowsful bits yourself.
gollark: You would fail.
gollark: If you don't like it make your own, yes.
gollark: Edge...
References
- Quinault at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Quinault". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hajda, Yvonne (1990). Southwestern Coast Salish. Wayne Suttles (ed.), Northwest Coast: Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 503–517.
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