Wailaki language

Wailaki, also known as Eel River, is an extinct Athabaskan language spoken by the people of the Round Valley Reservation of northern California, one of four languages belonging to the California Athabaskan cluster of the Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages. Dialect clusters reflect the four Wailaki-speaking peoples, the Sinkyone, Wailaki, Nongatl, and Lassik, of the Eel River confederation.

Wailaki
Eel River
Native toUSA
RegionCalifornia
EthnicityEel River Athapaskans
Extinct1960s[1]
Dené–Yeniseian?
Dialects
  • Sinkyone
  • Wailaki
  • Nongatl
  • Lassik
Language codes
ISO 639-3wlk
Glottologwail1244[2]
Wailaki and other California Athabaskan languages.

Phonology

The sounds in Wailaki:

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Lateral Palatal Velar Glottal
plain pal.
Plosive plain p t k kʲ ʔ
aspirated tʰ kʰ kʲʰ
ejective tʼ kʼ kʲʼ
Affricate plain (ts) tʃ
aspirated tʃʰ
ejective tsʼ tʃʼ
Fricative plain s ɬ ʃ h
voiced ɣ
Nasal (m) n ŋ
Approximant l j (w)

Sounds /m, ts, w/ are rather rare.

Vowels

Vowels in Wailaki are /i e a o/, and with length as /iː eː aː oː/.

gollark: ++delete jæpan
gollark: I am sure your assembly knowledge would make you a *perfect* ruler.
gollark: Well, I'd like to at least decide on some high-level policy stuff, if not do day-to-day countryrunning.
gollark: I don't really think you have country-running skills.
gollark: By technocracy, do you mean rule by AutoBotRobot?

References
  1. Wailaki at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eel River Athabaskan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  • Goddard, Pliny E. (1923). "Wailaki Texts". International Journal of American Linguistics. 2 (3/4): 77–135. doi:10.1086/463738. JSTOR 1263274.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Seaburg, William R. (1977). "A Wailaki (Athapaskan) Text with Comparative Notes". International Journal of American Linguistics. 43 (4): 327–332. doi:10.1086/465503.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Begay, Kayla Rae (2017). Wailaki Grammar (Ph.D. thesis). University of California Berkeley.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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