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Upper Chehalis language

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Upper Chehalis
Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉
Native to	United States
Region	south of Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Ethnicity	Chehalis people
Extinct	2001^[1]
Language family	Salishan Coast Tsamosan Inland Upper Chehalis
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`cjh`
Glottolog	`uppe1439`
Upper Chehalis is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger ^[2]

Upper Chehalis (Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉) is a member of the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. Thompson's 1979 classification lists Upper Chehalis as more closely related to the Cowlitz language than it is to Lower Chehalis.^[3]

Phonology

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

Vowels^[4]
	Front	Central	Back
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a

References

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^ Upper ChehalisatEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 11.

^ Thompson, Lawrence (1979). "Salishan and the Northwest". In Campbell, Lyle; Mithun, Marianne (eds.). The Languages of Native America: Historical and comparative assessment. University of Texas Press. p. 693. doi:10.7560/746244. ISBN 978-0-292-76851-2. JSTOR 10.7560/746244.16.

^ Kinkade, M. Dale (July 1963). "Phonology and Morphology of Upper Chehalis: I". International Journal of American Linguistics. 29 (3): 181–195. doi:10.1086/464734.