Galice language
| Galice | |
|---|---|
| Galice-Applegate | |
| Native to | Oregon |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
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Dené–Yeniseian?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gce |
Galice /ɡəˈliːs/, or Galice-Applegate, is an extinct Athabaskan language once spoken by the Galice and Applegate (Nabiltse) people of southwestern Oregon.[1] It was spoken on the "Galice Creek and Applegate River, tributaries of the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon. There were at least two distinct dialects, but only the Galice Creek dialect is well documented."[2]
It is one of the languages of the Oregon Athabaskan (Tolowa–Galice) cluster of the Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages.
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Palato-alveolar /palatal |
Velar | Labialized velar |
Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Plosives | unaspirated | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | |
| aspirated | tʰ | kʰ | kʷʰ | ||||
| ejective | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | ||||
| Affricate | unaspirated | t͡s t͜ɬ | t͡ʃ | ||||
| aspirated | t͡ʃʰ | ||||||
| ejective | t͡sʼ | t͡ʃʼ | |||||
| Fricative | ɬ z | ʃ | h ʍ | ||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | ||||
The vowels are [ɪ], [ɛ], [a], and [o]. These vowels can appear in clusters and can be long. [3]
Galice also has several rules regarding the placements of consonants. For example, affricates can never end a stem, and neither can /z/, /m/, or /j/. On the other hand, some consonant clusters are found only at the end of a stem, for example /mʔ/, /ʔʃ/ and /ʔɬ/.[3]
References
- ↑ "Ethnologue report for language code: gce". Retrieved 2012-11-01.
- ↑ "Galice-Applegate". MultiTree. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hoijer, 1966, "Athapaskan Galice: A Grammatical Sketch", International Journal of American Linguistics 32:320–327
External links
- Galice (Nabiltse, Applegate Creek Indians)
- OLAC resources in and about the Galice language
- Galice basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
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