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Quinault language

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Dormant Salishan language of Washington State

Quinault
Kʷínaył
Native to	United States
Region	Olympic Peninsula,Washington
Ethnicity	1,500Quinault people (1977)^[1]
Extinct	1996^[1] half a dozen know some vocabulary (2007)^[1]
Revival	revival efforts underway^[1]^[2]^[3]
Language family	Salishan Coast Tsamosan Maritime Quinault
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`qun`
Glottolog	`quin1251`

Quinault (Kʷínaył) is a member of theTsamosan (Olympic) branch of theCoast Salish family ofSalishan languages. It is extinct, but efforts are being taken to revitalize it.

Consonants
		Bilabial	Alveolar			Palatal	Velar		Uvular		Glottal
		Bilabial	median	sibilant	lateral	Palatal	plain	lab.	plain	lab.	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	plain	p	t	ts		tʃ	k	kʷ	q	qʷ	ʔ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ	tsʼ	tɬʼ	tʃʼ	kʼ	kʷʼ	qʼ	qʷʼ	ʔ
	voiced					dʒ	ɡ^[a]
Fricative	voiceless			s	ɬ	ʃ	x	xʷ	χ	χʷ	h
Fricative	voiced						ɣ^[a]
Sonorant		m	n		l	j		w

Sounds/w,j,l/ can be heard as voiceless[w̥,j̊,l̥] when within voiceless positions.
/xʷ/ may also be pronounced as[ʍ] in free variation.^[4]

Vowels are represented as/i,ɛ,ə,a,ɔ,u/ and/iː,uː,aː/.^[5]^[4]

An alternative phonology is as follows:

^^a ^b ^c ^dQuinault atEthnologue (18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
^"Language Department".Quinault Indian Nation, WA. Retrieved2024-05-20.
^Terry-itewaste 2016, pp. 17–20.
^^a ^bModrow, Ruth (1971).The Quinault dictionary. Taholah: Quinault Indian Tribe of Washington. pp. 365–386.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
^Hajda, Yvonne (1990). "Southwestern Coast Salish". In Suttles, Wayne (ed.).Northwest Coast. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 503–517.
^Terry-itewaste 2016, p. 27.

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Chinookan languages	Lower Chinook Upper Chinook
Coast Salish languages	Cowlitz language Lower Chehalis Lushootseed North Straits Salish Quinault language (S')Klallam Upper Chehalis
Interior Salish languages	Coeur d'Alene Columbia-Moses Colville-Okanagan Nlaka'pamuctsin Salish-Spokane-Kalispel
Sahaptian languages	Nez Perce Sahaptin
Wakashan languages	Makah
Trade languages	Chinook Jargon
Unclassified languages	Cayuse

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