Quinault language
Quinault (Kʷínaył) is a member of the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages.
| Quinault | |
|---|---|
| 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] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qun |
| Glottolog | quin1251 |
Phonology
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| central | sibilant | lateral | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | |||||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
plain | p | t | ts | tʃ | k | kʷ | q | qʷ | ʔ | |
| ejective | pʼ | tʼ | tsʼ | tɬʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | qʼ | qʷʼ | ||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ɬ | ʃ | x | xʷ | χ | χʷ | h | ||
| voiced | ɣ[lower-alpha 1] | ||||||||||
| Sonorant | m | n | l | j | 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/.[2]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Open | a aː |
References
- Quinault at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Hajda, Yvonne (1990). Southwestern Coast Salish. Wayne Suttles (ed.), Northwest Coast: Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 503–517.
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