Quinault language

Quinault
Kʷínaył
Native toUnited States
RegionOlympic Peninsula, Washington
Ethnicity1,500 Quinault people (1977)
Extinct1996
half a dozen know some vocabulary (2007)
Revivalrevival efforts underway
Salishan
  • Coast
    • Tsamosan
      • Maritime
        • Quinault
Language codes
ISO 639-3qun
Glottologquin1251

Quinault (Kʷínaył) is a member of the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. It is extinct, but efforts are being taken to revitalize it.

Phonology

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
mediansibilantlateral plainlab. plainlab.
Plosive/
Affricate		 plain p t ts tʃ k kʷ q qʷ ʔ
ejective pʼ tʼ tsʼ tɬʼ tʃʼ kʼ kʷʼ qʼ qʷʼ
voiced dʒ ɡ
Fricative voiceless s ɬ ʃ x xʷ χ χʷ h
voiced ɣ
Sonorant m n l j w
  1. 1 2 A voiced fricative sound /ɣ/ may also be heard as a voiced stop [ɡ].

Vowels are represented as /i, ɛ, ə, a, ɔ, u/ and /iː, uː, aː/.

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i iː u uː
Mid ɛ ə ɔ
Open a aː

An alternative phonology is as follows:

Quinault vowels
Front Central Back
Close i u
Near-close ɪ
Mid e ə o
Open a

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Quinault at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ "Language Department". Quinault Indian Nation, WA. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
  3. ↑ Terry-itewaste 2016, pp. 17–20.
  4. 1 2 Modrow, Ruth (1971). The Quinault dictionary. Taholah: Quinault Indian Tribe of Washington. pp. 365–386.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  5. ↑ Hajda, Yvonne (1990). "Southwestern Coast Salish". In Suttles, Wayne (ed.). Northwest Coast. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 503–517.
  6. ↑ Terry-itewaste 2016, p. 27.

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