Upper Chehalis language
Upper Chehalis (Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉) is a member of the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. Thompson's 1979 classification lists Upper Chehalis as more closely related to the Cowlitz language than it is to Lower Chehalis.[3]:693
Upper Chehalis | |
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Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉ | |
Native to | United States |
Region | south of Olympic Peninsula, Washington |
Ethnicity | Chehalis people |
Extinct | 2001[1] |
Salishan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | cjh |
Glottolog | uppe1439 [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 | m | n | j | l | w |
Vowels are represented as /e ə o a/.[4]
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References
- Upper Chehalis at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Upper Chehalis". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Thompson, Lawrence (1979). "Salishan and the Northwest". In Campbell, Lyle; Mithun, Marianne (eds.). The Languages of Native America: Historical and comparative assessment.
- Kinkade, M. Dale (1963). Phonology and Morphology of Upper Chehalis: I. International Journal of American Linguistics.
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