Quinault | |
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Kʷínaył | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Olympic Peninsula, Washington |
Ethnicity | 1,500 Quinault people (1977)[1] |
Extinct | 1996[1] half a dozen know some vocabulary (2007)[1] |
Revival | revival efforts underway[2][1] |
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.
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||
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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 |
Vowels are represented as /i ə u a/ and /iː uː aː/.[3]
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i iː | u uː | |
Mid | ə | ||
Open | a aː |
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Coast Salish |
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Interior Salish |
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Italics indicate extinct languages |