Quinault language

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

Quinault (Kʷínaył) is a member of the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. It is extinct, but efforts are being taken to revitalize it.

Phonology

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:

1 2 3 4 Quinault at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ "Language Department". Quinault Indian Nation, WA. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
↑ Terry-itewaste 2016, pp. 17–20.
1 2 Modrow, 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.