- Chemakum language
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For the community named Chimacum, see Chimacum, Washington.
Chemakum ʔaχʷókʷolo Spoken in Olympic Peninsula, Washington Native speakers extinct Language family Chimakuan- Chemakum
Language codes ISO 639-3 xch 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 Chemakum language (
/ˈtʃɛməkʌm/; also written as Chimakum or Chimacum) was spoken by the Chemakum, a Native American group that once lived on western Washington state's Olympic Peninsula. The Chemakum language was very similar to the Quileute language (the only surviving Chimakuan language). In the 1860s, Chief Seattle and the Suquamish people wiped out the Chimakum people, killing the language off with them.Phonology
Chemakum had three vowels, long and short, and lexical stress. It had the following consonants. (Note the unusual lack of plain velar consonants.)
Bilabial Alveolar Post-
alveolarLabio-
velarUvular Glottal central lateral plain labial Nasal m n Plosive plain p t kʷ q qʷ ʔ ejective pʼ tʼ kʷʼ qʼ qʷʼ Affricate plain t͡s t͡ʃ ejective t͡sʼ t͡ɬʼ t͡ʃʼ Fricative s ɬ ʃ xʷ χ χʷ h Approximant l j w See also
- Quileute language
- Chimakuan languages
Categories:- Native American tribes in Washington (state)
- Chimakuan languages
- Languages of the United States
- Extinct languages of North America
- Indigenous languages of Washington (state)
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs
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