Nooksack language
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Nooksack Lhéchalosem Spoken in Whatcom County Extinct 1988 Language family Salish- Coast Salish
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Language codes ISO 639-3 nok This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. The Nooksack language (Lhéchalosem) is a Coast Salish language spoken by the Nooksack Indians of northwestern Washington State in the United States, centered in Whatcom County.
The Nooksack language belonged to the Coast Salishan family of Native American but became extinct around 1988. In the 1970s, the Salishan linguist Brent Galloway worked closely with the last remaining fluent speaker and is currently completing a dictionary of the language. George Adams, a Nooksack tribal member, is also working on the language.
Nooksack is most closely related to Squamish, Sháshíshálhem (Sechelt) and Halkomelem, which are all spoken in nearby parts of British Columbia, Canada.
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Phonology
Vowels
The following table includes all the vowel sounds found in the Nooksack language.
Front Central Back Close i Mid ɵ, ə o Open æ Consonants
The following table includes all the consonant sounds found in the Nooksack language.
Bilabial Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal central lateral plain rounded plain rounded Stop plain p t k kʷ q qʷ ʔ ejective pʼ tʼ kʷʼ qʼ qʷʼ Affricate plain t͡s t͡ʃ ejective t͡sʼ t͡ɬʼ t͡ʃʼ Fricative plain s ɬ ʃ x xʷ χ χʷ h ejective ɬʼ Nasal m n Approximant plain l j w glottalized jʼ Orthography
(di)graph sound (di)graph sound a æ qw qʷ ch tʃ qw’ qʷʼ ch’ tʃʼ s s e ə sh ʃ h h t t i i t’ tʼ k k ts t͡s kw kʷ ts’ t͡sʼ kw’ kʷʼ tl’ t͡ɬʼ l l u ɵ lh ɬ w w lh’ ɬʼ x x m m xw xʷ n n x̱ χ o o x̱w χʷ p p y j p’ pʼ y’ jʼ q q ʔ ʔ q’ qʼ In addition, the symbol "ː" is used to indicated elongated vowels and consonants (e.g., mː, aː). An acute accent (´) is placed over the accented syllable.
References
Categories:- Coast Salishan languages
- Extinct languages of North America
- Languages of the United States
- Nooksack
- Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast
- Indigenous languages of Washington (state)
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs
- Washington (state) stubs
- Coast Salish
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