Wailaki | |
Also Known As: | Eel River |
States: | United States |
Region: | California |
Ethnicity: | Eel River Athapaskans |
Extinct: | 1960s |
Ref: | e19 |
Familycolor: | Dené-Yeniseian |
Fam2: | Na-Dené |
Fam3: | Athabaskan |
Fam4: | Pacific Coast Athabaskan |
Fam5: | California Athabaskan |
Iso3: | wlk |
Glotto: | wail1244 |
Glottorefname: | Eel River Athabaskan |
Dia1: | Sinkyone |
Dia2: | Wailaki |
Dia3: | Nongatl |
Dia4: | Lassik |
Map2: | Lang Status 01-EX.svg |
Mapcaption2: | [1] |
Map: | California-athabaskan.svg |
Mapcaption: | 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.
The sounds in Wailaki:
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
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plain | sibilant | lateral | plain | pal. | ||||||
Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||
Plosive | plain | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
aspirated | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
ejective | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ |
Vowels in Wailaki are /i e a o/, and with length as /iː eː aː oː/.