Lower Chehalis language
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Salishan language of North America
| Lower Chehalis | |
|---|---|
| L@walm@s l@walm@s | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | south of Olympic Peninsula, Washington |
| Ethnicity | Chehalis people |
| Extinct | 1990s[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cea |
| Glottolog | lowe1427 |
Lower Chehalis (L@walm@s) is a member of the Tsamosan (or Olympic Peninsula) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. In some classifications, Lower Chehalis is placed closer to Quinault than it is to Upper Chehalis. It went extinct in the 1990s.
Phonology
[edit]| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| median | sibilant | lateral | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | |||||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
plain | p | t | ts | tS | k | kw | q | qw | ? | |
| ejective | p' | t' | ts' | tl' | tS' | k' | kw' | q' | qw' | ||
| Fricative | s | l | S | xw | kh | khw | h | ||||
| Sonorant | plain | m | n | l | j | w | |||||
| glottalized | ?m | ?n | ?l | ?j | ?w | ||||||
Vowels are represented as /i @ u a/ and /i: u: a:/.[3] Allophones are also noted.
| Sound | Allophone |
|---|---|
| /i/ | [i], [e], [e] |
| /a/ | [a?], [a], [a] |
| /@/ | [i], [@], [^], [I], [U] |
| /u/ | [u], [o], [o] |
References
[edit]- ^ Lower Chehalis at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 11.
- ^ Snow, Charles T. (June 1969). A Lower Chehalis Phonology (Master of Arts thesis). University of Kansas. hdl:1808/26715. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
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