Upper Chehalis language

Upper Chehalis (Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉) is a member of the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. Thompson's 1979 classification lists Upper Chehalis as more closely related to the Cowlitz language than it is to Lower Chehalis.[2]^:693

Upper Chehalis
Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉
Native to	United States
Region	south of Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Ethnicity	Chehalis people
Extinct	2001[1]
Language family	Salishan Coast Tsamosan Inland Upper Chehalis
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cjh
Glottolog	uppe1439

Phonology

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Lateral	Velar		Uvular		Glottal
						plain	lab.	plain	lab.
Plosive	plain	p	t			k	kʷ	q	qʷ	ʔ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ			kʼ	kʼʷ	qʼ	qʼʷ
Affricate	plain		ts	tʃ
	ejective		tsʼ	tʃʼ	tɬʼ
Fricative			s	ʃ	ɬ		xʷ	χ	χʷ	h
Sonorant		m	n	j	l		w

Vowels are represented as /e ə o a/.[3]

References

1. Upper Chehalis at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Thompson, Lawrence (1979). "Salishan and the Northwest". In Campbell, Lyle; Mithun, Marianne (eds.). The Languages of Native America: Historical and comparative assessment.
3. Kinkade, M. Dale (1963). Phonology and Morphology of Upper Chehalis: I. International Journal of American Linguistics.

External links

• Upper Chehalis (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)