Quinault language

Quinault
Quinault
Kʷínaył
Native to	United States
Region	Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Ethnicity	1,500 Quinault people (1977)
Extinct	(date missing); half a dozen know some vocabulary (2007)
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.

Phonology

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

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]

^ ^a ^b ^c Quinault at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Hajda, Yvonne (1990). Southwestern Coast Salish. Wayne Suttles (ed.), Northwest Coast: Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 503–517.

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