Quinault language

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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.

Quinault
Kʷínaył
Native toUnited States
RegionOlympic Peninsula, Washington
Ethnicity1,500 Quinault people (1977)[1]
Extinct1996[1]
half a dozen know some vocabulary (2007)[1]
Revivalrevival efforts underway[1][2][3]
Salishan
  • Coast
    • Tsamosan
      • Maritime
        • Quinault
Language codes
ISO 639-3qun
Glottologquin1251

Phonology

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Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
central sibilant lateral plain lab. plain lab.
Plosive/
Affricate
plain p t ts k q ʔ
ejective tsʼ tɬʼ tʃʼ kʷʼ qʷʼ
voiced ɡ[a]
Fricative voiceless s ɬ ʃ x χ χʷ h
voiced ɣ[a]
Sonorant m n l j w
  1. ^ a b A voiced fricative sound /ɣ/ may also be heard as a voiced stop [ɡ].
  • Sounds /w, j, l/ can be heard as voiceless [w̥, j̊, l̥] when within voiceless positions.
  • /xʷ/ may also be pronounced as [ʍ] in free variation.[4]

Vowels are represented as /i, ɛ, ə, a, ɔ, u/ and /iː aː/.[5][4]

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

An alternative phonology is as follows:

Quinault vowels[6]
Front Central Back
Close i u
Near-close ɪ
Mid e ə o
Open a

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d 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. ^ a b Modrow, Ruth (1971). The Quinault dictionary. Taholah: Quinault Indian Tribe of Washington. pp. 365–386.
  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.

References

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Further reading

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  • Modrow, Ruth (1967). Introduction to the Quinault language. Taholah: Quinault Indian Tribe of Washington. LCCN 68000947. OCLC 430013.
  • Modrow, Ruth (1971). The Quinault dictionary. Taholah: Quinault Indian Tribe of Washington. OCLC 1023433458.