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.
Wailaki | |
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Eel River | |
Native to | United States |
Region | California |
Ethnicity | Eel River Athapaskans |
Extinct | 1960s[1] |
Dené–Yeniseian?
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | wlk |
Glottolog | wail1244 |
ELP | Eel River Athabaskan |
Wailaki and other California Athabaskan languages. | |
Eel River Athabaskan is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [2] |
Phonology edit
The sounds in Wailaki:
Consonants edit
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
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plain | sibilant | lateral | plain | pal. | |||||
Nasal | m[a] | n | ŋ | ||||||
Plosive | plain | p | t | ts[a] | 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[a] |
Vowels edit
Vowels in Wailaki are /i e a o/, and with length as /iː eː aː oː/.
References edit
- ^ Wailaki at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- ^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 11.
- 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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