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

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
centralsibilantlateral plainlab. plainlab.
Plosive/
Affricate		 plain p t ts tʃ k kʷ q qʷ ʔ
ejective pʼ tʼ tsʼ tɬʼ tʃʼ kʼ kʷʼ qʼ qʷʼ
Fricative voiceless s ɬ ʃ x xʷ χ χʷ h
voiced ɣ[lower-alpha 1]
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 iː u uː
Mid ə
Open a aː

References

  1. 1 2 3 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

  • Modrow, Ruth (1967). Introduction to the Quinault language. Taholah: Quinault Indian Tribe of Washington.
  • Modrow, Ruth (1971). The Quinault dictionary. Taholah: Quinault Indian Tribe of Washington.


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