Wailaki language

Wailaki, also known as Eel River, is an extinct Athabaskan language spoken by the people of the Round Valley Reservation of northern California, one of four languages belonging to the California Athabaskan cluster of the Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages. Dialect clusters reflect the four Wailaki-speaking peoples, the Sinkyone, Wailaki, Nongatl, and Lassik, of the Eel River confederation.

Wailaki
Eel River
Native toUSA
RegionCalifornia
EthnicityEel River Athapaskans
Extinct1960s[1]
Dialects
  • Sinkyone
  • Wailaki
  • Nongatl
  • Lassik
Language codes
ISO 639-3wlk
Glottologwail1244
ELPEel River Athabaskan[2]
Wailaki and other California Athabaskan languages.

Phonology

The sounds in Wailaki:

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Lateral Palatal Velar Glottal
plain pal.
Plosive plain p t k kʲ ʔ
aspirated tʰ kʰ kʲʰ
ejective tʼ kʼ kʲʼ
Affricate plain (ts) tʃ
aspirated tʃʰ
ejective tsʼ tʃʼ
Fricative s ɬ ʃ ɣ h
Nasal (m) n ŋ
Approximant l j (w)

Sounds /m, ts, w/ are rather rare.

Vowels

Vowels in Wailaki are /i e a o/, and with length as /iː eː aː oː/.

References
  1. Wailaki at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Eel River Athabaskan.
  • Goddard, Pliny E. (1923). "Wailaki Texts". International Journal of American Linguistics. 2 (3/4): 77–135. doi:10.1086/463738. JSTOR 1263274.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Seaburg, William R. (1977). "A Wailaki (Athapaskan) Text with Comparative Notes". International Journal of American Linguistics. 43 (4): 327–332. doi:10.1086/465503.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Begay, Kayla Rae (2017). Wailaki Grammar (Ph.D. thesis). University of California Berkeley.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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