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The Cowlitz language is a member of the Tsamosan branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages.

Cowlitz
Native to	United States
Region	Southwestern Washington
Ethnicity	200 Cowlitz people (1990)[1] As of 2019 over 2,000 and growing
Extinct	maybe 2 speakers in 1990.[1] 1 currently lives in Puyallup, Washington
Revival	the 110 listed in 2010 census[2] are not native speakers
Language family	Salishan Coast Tsamosan Inland Cowlitz
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cow
Glottolog	cowl1242

The Cowlitz people

The Cowlitz people were originally two distinct tribes: the Lower Cowlitz and the Upper Cowlitz. Only the Lower Cowlitz spoke Cowlitz; the Upper Cowlitz, a Sahaptin tribe, spoke a dialect of Yakama.

Phonology

Consonants[3]

		Bilabial	Alveolar			Palatal	Velar		Uvular		Glottal
			central	sibilant	lateral		plain	lab.	plain	lab.
Plosive/ Affricate	plain	p	t	ts		tʃ	k	kʷ	q	qʷ	ʔ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ	tsʼ	tɬʼ	tʃʼ	kʼ	kʷʼ	qʼ	qʷʼ
Fricative				s	ɬ	ʃ	x	xʷ	χ	χʷ	h
Sonorant	plain	m	n		l	j		w
	glottalized	mˀ	nˀ		lˀ	jˀ		wˀ

Vowels[3]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e eː	ə	oː
Open		a aː

Vocabulary

Cowlitz is most similar to Lower Chehalis, another Tsamosan language, although it contains some oddities, such as the word for one, utsus (in contrast to the Lower Chehalis paw).

English	Cowlitz
Lower Cowlitz tribe	Sł'púlmš
one (number)	utsus
two	salli
three	kałi
four	mus
five	tsilats
to sing	ilani
moon/sun	Łuqał
dog	kaxa
water	kal'l
man	siłimx
woman	kuwił

References

• Native-Languages.org.
• Kinkade, Dale. Cowlitz Dictionary And Grammatical Sketch. Missoula: University of Montana Press, 2004.

See also

• Cowlitz (tribe)
• Salishan languages
• Native American Languages

На других языках

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- [en] Cowlitz language

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[fr] Cowlitz (langue)

Le cowlitz (ƛʼpúlmixq en cowlitz) est une langue amérindienne de la famille des langues salish parlée aux États-Unis, au Sud-Est de l'État de Washington.

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[ru] Коулитц

Коулитц (Cowlitz, Lower Cowlitz) — мёртвый и неиспользуемый язык, который принадлежит цамосской ветви прибрежно-салишской группы салишской языковой семьи, на котором раньше говорил народ коулитц, который в настоящее время проживает на юго-западе штата Вашингтон в США. Народ коулитц изначально состоял из двух племён: нижних коулитц и верхних коулитц. Нижние коулитц говорили на языке коулитц. Племена верхние коулитц и сахаптин говорили на диалекте якима.

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