Quinault language

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

Quinault (Kʷínaył) is a member of the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages.

Phonology[edit]

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
Fricative voiceless s ɬ ʃ x χ χʷ h
voiced ɣ[a]
Sonorant m n l j w
  1. ^ A voiced fricative sound /ɣ/ may also be heard as a voiced stop [ɡ].

Vowels are represented as /i ə u a/ and /iː uː aː/.[2]

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid ə
Open a

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Quinault at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Hajda, Yvonne (1990). "Southwestern Coast Salish". In Suttles, Wayne (ed.). Northwest Coast. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 503–517.

Further reading[edit]

  • 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.