Upper Chehalis language
| Upper Chehalis | |
|---|---|
| Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉ | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | south of Olympic Peninsula, Washington |
| Ethnicity | Chehalis people |
| Extinct | 2001[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cjh |
| Glottolog | uppe1439 |
 Upper Chehalis is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [2] | |
Upper Chehalis (Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉) is a member of the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. Thompson's 1979 classification lists Upper Chehalis as more closely related to the Cowlitz language than it is to Lower Chehalis.[3]
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 | s | ɬ | ʃ | xʷ | χ | χʷ | h | ||||
| Sonorant | m | n | l | j | w | ||||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a |
References
- ^ Upper Chehalis at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 11.
- ^ Thompson, Lawrence (1979). "Salishan and the Northwest". In Campbell, Lyle; Mithun, Marianne (eds.). The Languages of Native America: Historical and comparative assessment. University of Texas Press. p. 693. doi:10.7560/746244. ISBN 978-0-292-76851-2. JSTOR 10.7560/746244.16.
- ^ Kinkade, M. Dale (July 1963). "Phonology and Morphology of Upper Chehalis: I". International Journal of American Linguistics. 29 (3): 181–195. doi:10.1086/464734.
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