Wailaki language
| Wailaki | |
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| Eel River | |
| Native to | Eel River Athapaskans |
| Extinct | 1960s[1] |
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wlk |
| Glottolog | wail1244 |
| ELP | Eel River Athabaskan |
Wailaki, also known as Eel River, is an extinct
Eel River
confederation.
Phonology
The sounds in Wailaki:
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | sibilant | lateral | plain | pal. | |||||
| Nasal | m[a] | n
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ŋ | ||||||
Plosive
|
plain | p | t
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ts[a] | tʃ | k | kʲ | ʔ | |
| aspirated | tʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ | kʲʰ | |||||
| ejective | tʼ
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tsʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | kʲʼ | ||||
| Fricative | s | ɬ
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ʃ | ɣ | h | ||||
| Approximant | l
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j | w[a] | ||||||
Vowels
Vowels in Wailaki are /i e a o/, and with length as /iː eː aː oː/.
References
- ^ Wailaki at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- Goddard, Pliny E. (1923). "Wailaki Texts". International Journal of American Linguistics. 2 (3/4): 77–135. S2CID 224806395.
- Seaburg, William R. (1977). "A Wailaki (Athapaskan) Text with Comparative Notes". International Journal of American Linguistics. 43 (4): 327–332. S2CID 144969995.
- Begay, Kayla Rae (2017). Wailaki Grammar (Ph.D. thesis). University of California Berkeley.
External links
- Wailaki language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Wailaki Language (Sinkyone, Lassik, Nongatl, Eel River Athabaskan)
- OLAC resources in and about the Wailaki language
- Wailaki at the California Language Archive
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