Quinault language facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Quinault |
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|---|---|
| Kʷínaył | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Olympic Peninsula, Washington |
| Ethnicity | 1,500 Quinault people (1977) |
| Extinct | (date missing)e18 half a dozen know some vocabulary (2007) |
| Language family | |
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 | ||||||||||
| Sonorant | m | n | l | j | w | ||||||
Vowels are represented as /i ə u a/ and /iː uː aː/.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Open | a aː |
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