Wailaki language

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Wailaki
Eel River
Native toUnited States
RegionCalifornia
EthnicityEel River Athapaskans
Extinct1960s
Dialects
  • Sinkyone
  • Wailaki
  • Nongatl
  • Lassik
Language codes
ISO 639-3wlk
Glottologwail1244
ELPEel River Athabaskan
Wailaki and other California Athabaskan languages.

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

Phonology

The sounds in Wailaki:

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
plain sibilant lateral plain pal.
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive plain p t ts tʃ k kʲ ʔ
aspirated tʰ tʃʰ kʰ kʲʰ
ejective tʼ tsʼ tʃʼ kʼ kʲʼ
Fricative s ɬ ʃ ɣ h
Approximant l j w
  1. ^ a b c Sounds /m, ts, w/ are rather rare.

Vowels

Vowels in Wailaki are /i e a o/, and with length as /iː eː aː oː/.

References

  1. ^ Wailaki at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Closed access icon
  • Goddard, Pliny E. (1923). "Wailaki Texts". International Journal of American Linguistics. 2 (3/4): 77–135. doi:10.1086/463738. JSTOR 1263274. S2CID 224806395.
  • Seaburg, William R. (1977). "A Wailaki (Athapaskan) Text with Comparative Notes". International Journal of American Linguistics. 43 (4): 327–332. doi:10.1086/465503. S2CID 144969995.
  • Begay, Kayla Rae (2017). Wailaki Grammar (Ph.D. thesis). University of California Berkeley.

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