Tillamook language
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| Tillamook | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | USA | |
| Region: | Northwestern Oregon | |
| Language extinction: | last speaker died ca. 1970; the ethnic population now uses English as their mother tongue | |
| Language family: | Salishan Coast Tillamook |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sal | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | til | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Tillamook is an extinct Salishan language, formerly spoken by the Tillamook tribe in northwestern Oregon, USA.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | ə |
| Low | æ | ɑ |
[edit] Consonants
| Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrounded | Rounded | Unrounded | Rounded | |||||
| Stop | t | k | kʷ | q | qʷ | ʔ | ||
| Ejective | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | qʼ | qʷʼ | |||
| Affricate | ts | tʃ | ||||||
| Ejective affricate | tsʼ | tʃʼ | ||||||
| Lateral ejective affricate | tɬʼ | |||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | x | xʷ | χ | χʷ | h | |
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||
| Nasal | n | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||
| Semivowel | j | w | ||||||
The "rounded" consonants, including /w/, are not labialized—the effect is created entirely inside the mouth, by cupping the tongue.
[edit] Bibliography
- Lawrence C. Thompson; M. Terry Thompson (1966). "A Fresh Look at Tillamook Phonology". International Journal of American Linguistics Vol. 32, No. 4: pp. 313–319.
