Quileute language
Extinct Chimakuan language of Washington state, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Quileute /ˈkwɪlɪjuːt/,[2] sometimes alternatively anglicized as Quillayute /kwɪˈleɪjuːt/, is an extinct language, and was the last Chimakuan language, spoken natively until the end of the 20th century by Quileute and Makah elders on the western coast of the Olympic peninsula south of Cape Flattery at La Push and the lower Hoh River in Washington state, United States. The name Quileute comes from kʷoʔlí·yot’ [kʷoʔléːjotʼ], the name of a village at La Push.
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Quileute | |
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Kʷòʔlíyotʼ | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Olympic Peninsula, Washington |
Ethnicity | 500 Quileute (2007)[1] |
Extinct | 1999[1] |
Chimakuan
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ISO 639-3 | qui |
Glottolog | quil1240 |
ELP | Quileute |
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Quileute is famous for its lack of nasal sounds, such as [m], [n], or nasal vowels, an areal feature of Puget Sound.[3] Quileute is polysynthetic and words can be quite long.