Quinault language
| 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] |
Salishan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qun |
| Glottolog | quin1251 |
Quinault (Kʷínaył) is a member of the
Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages
.
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[a] | ||||||||||
| 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
Further reading
- Modrow, Ruth (1967). Introduction to the Quinault language. Taholah: Quinault Indian Tribe of Washington. OCLC 430013.
- Modrow, Ruth (1971). The Quinault dictionary. Taholah: Quinault Indian Tribe of Washington. OCLC 1023433458.
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