Cahto language facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Kato |
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Cahto | |
Native to | United States |
Region | California (Eel River) |
Ethnicity | Cahto people |
Extinct | 1960se18 |
Language family |
Dené–Yeniseian?
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Cahto (also spelled Kato) is an extinct Athabaskan language that was formerly spoken by the Kato people of the Laytonville and Branscomb area at the head of the South Fork of the Eel River. It is one of the four languages belonging to the California Athabaskan cluster of the Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages. Most Kato speakers were bilingual in Northern Pomo and some also spoke Yuki.
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||
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central | lateral | plain | labial | ||||||||
Nasal | m ⟨m⟩ | n ⟨n⟩ | ɲ ⟨ñ⟩ | ||||||||
Plosive/ Affricate |
unaspirated | b ⟨b⟩ | t~d ⟨d⟩ | ts ⟨ts⟩ | t͡ʃ~d͡ʒ ⟨dj⟩ | c~ɟ ⟨g⟩ | k~[[Error using : IPA symbol "g" not found in list|g]] ⟨g⟩ | kʷ ⟨kw⟩ | k~q ⟨q⟩ | ʔ ⟨′⟩ | |
ejective | tʼ ⟨t'⟩ | tsʼ ⟨ts'⟩ | tɬʼ ⟨L⟩ | t͡ʃʼ ⟨tc'⟩ | cʼ ⟨k'⟩ | kʼ ⟨k'⟩ | [[Error using : IPA symbol "kʷʼ" not found in list|kʷʼ]] ⟨kw'⟩ | ||||
aspirated | tʰ ⟨t⟩ | t͡ʃʰ ⟨tc⟩ | [[Error using : IPA symbol "cʰ" not found in list|cʰ]] ⟨k⟩ | kʰ ⟨k⟩ | |||||||
Fricative | voiceless | s ⟨s⟩ | ɬ ⟨ʟ⟩ | ʃ ⟨c⟩ | h ⟨h⟩ | ||||||
voiced | z ⟨z⟩ | ʒ | ɣ ⟨ɢ⟩ | ||||||||
Approximant | l ⟨l⟩ | j ⟨y⟩ | w ⟨w⟩ |
Cahto has 26 consonant phonemes and 30 phones.
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | Diphthong | |
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High | [i(ː)] ī | [ɪ] i ~ [ʊ] û | [u(ː)] ū | |
High-Mid | [e(ː)] ē | [e] ɛ ~ [ə] ę | [o(ː)] ō | |
Low-Mid | [ɛ] ɛ ~ [ə] ę | [ʌ] ą ~ [a] a | ||
Low | [a(ː)] ā, [ʌ] ą ~ [a] a | [ai] ai |
Cahto has 9 vowel phonemes (including the diphthong) and 12 phones.
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