Wailaki language facts for kids

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Eel River
Native to	United States
Region	California
Ethnicity	Eel River Athapaskans
Extinct	1960se19
Language family	Dené–Yeniseian? Na-Dené Athabaskan Pacific Coast Athabaskan California Athabaskan Wailaki
Dialects	Sinkyone Wailaki Nongatl Lassik

Wailaki and other California Athabaskan languages.

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.

Phonology

The sounds in Wailaki:

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar			Palatal	Velar		Glottal
		Bilabial	plain	sibilant	lateral	Palatal	plain	pal.	Glottal
Nasal		m	n				ŋ
Plosive	plain	p	t	ts		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

Vowels

Vowels in Wailaki are /i e a o/, and with length as /iː eː aː oː/.

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