Lower Chehalis (Łəw̓ál̕məš) is a member of the Tsamosan (or Olympic Peninsula) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. In some classifications, Lower Chehalis is placed closer to Quinault than it is to Upper Chehalis.
Lower Chehalis | |
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Łəw̓ál̕məš | |
Native to | United States |
Region | south of Olympic Peninsula, Washington |
Ethnicity | Chehalis people |
Extinct | (date missing)[1] |
Language family | Salishan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | cea |
Glottolog | lowe1427 |
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||
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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 | xʷ | χ | χʷ | h | ||||
Sonorant | plain | m | n | l | j | w | |||||
glottalized | ˀm | ˀn | ˀl | ˀj | ˀw |
Vowels are represented as /i ə u a/ and /iː uː aː/.[2] Allophones are also noted.
Sound | Allophone |
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/i/ | [i], [e], [ɛ] |
/a/ | [aˤ], [a], [ɐ] |
/ə/ | [ɨ], [ə], [ʌ], [ɪ], [ʊ] |
/u/ | [u], [o], [ɔ] |
Salishan languages | |||||||
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Bella Coola | |||||||
Coast Salish |
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Interior Salish |
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Italics indicate extinct languages |
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