Quinault language

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

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

Phonology

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Lateral Velar Uvular Glottal
plain lab. plain lab.
Plosive plain p t k q ʔ
ejective kʷʼ qʷʼ
Affricate plain ts
ejective tsʼ tʃʼ tɬʼ
Fricative voiceless s ʃ ɬ x χ χʷ h
voiced ɣ
Sonorant m n j l w

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]

References

  1. Quinault at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hajda, Yvonne (1990). Southwestern Coast Salish. Wayne Suttles (ed.), Northwest Coast: Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 503–517.


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