Wailaki language

Wailaki
Eel River
Native to	USA
Region	California
Ethnicity	Eel River Athapaskans
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Dené–Yeniseian? Na-Dené Athabaskan Pacific Coast Athabaskan California Athabaskan Wailaki
Dialects	Sinkyone Wailaki Nongatl Lassik
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wlk
Glottolog	wail1244
ELP	Eel River Athabaskan

Wailaki, also known as Eel River, is an extinct Athabaskan language once 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.

References

• Goddard, Pliny. Wailaki Texts. International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 2, No. 3/4 (Jan., 1923), pp. 77–135
• Seaburg, William. A Wailaki (Athapaskan) Text with Comparative Notes. International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Oct., 1977), pp. 327–332

External links

• Wailaki language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
• Wailaki Language (Sinkyone, Lassik, Nongatl, Eel River Athabaskan)
• OLAC resources in and about the Wailaki language
• Wailaki at the California Language Archive