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Quileute

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Orthography information from the Quileute Tribal School webpage.

Note: There are several Roman Orthography conventions on this site that may require further explanation. On the charts below, there is lots of phonetic terminology that may not be familiar to everyone.

 

There are only about4 speakers of Quileute all of whom live in the United States (Peninsula Daily News).
Community Names:

 

 

Consonants

  bilabial alveolar alveolar affricate palato-alveolar lateral palatal velar rounded velar uvular rounded uvular glottal
voiced stop
b
d
g
voiceless stop
p
t
ts
ch
tł
k
kʷ
ḳ
ḳʷ
ʔ
ejective stop
p̓
t̓
t̓s
c̓h
t̓ł
k̓
k̓ʷ
ḳ̓
ḳ̓ʷ
voiceless fricative
s
sh
ł
x
xʷ
x̣
x̣ʷ
h
nasal / resonant
l
y
w

Vowels

  front central back
high
i
mid
o
low
a̱
a

Notes

  • The sound /g/ is only occurs in the word hágaʔy ‘frog’
  • Primary stress is indicated with an acúte accent; secondary stress is written with a gràve accent.
  • Long vowels are indicated with a raised dot: a· a̱· i· o·

 

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