Lower Chehalis language

Lower Chehalis
Lower Chehalis
Łəw̓ál̕məš; ɬəw̓ál̓məš
Native to	United States
Region	south of Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Ethnicity	Chehalis people
Extinct	1990s
Language family	Salishan Coast Tsamosan Maritime Lower Chehalis; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cea
Glottolog	lowe1427
	Lower Chehalis is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Lower Chehalis (Łəw̓ál̕məš) is a member of the Tsamosan (or Olympic Peninsula) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. In some classifications, Lower Chehalis is placed closer to Quinault than it is to Upper Chehalis. It went extinct in the 1990s.

Extinct1990s^[1]

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		Bilabial	Alveolar			Palatal	Velar		Uvular		Glottal
		Bilabial	median	sibilant	lateral	Palatal	plain	lab.	plain	lab.	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	plain	p	t	ts		tʃ	k	kʷ	q	qʷ	ʔ
Plosive/ Affricate	ejective	pʼ	tʼ	tsʼ	tɬʼ	tʃʼ	kʼ	kʷʼ	qʼ	qʷʼ	ʔ
Fricative				s	ɬ	ʃ		xʷ	χ	χʷ	h
Sonorant	plain	m	n		l	j		w
Sonorant	glottalized	ˀm	ˀn		ˀl	ˀj		ˀw

Phonology

Lower Chehalis
Łəw̓ál̕məš ɬəw̓ál̓məš
Native to	United States
Region	south of Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Ethnicity	Chehalis people
Extinct	1990s^[1]
Language family	Salishan Coast Tsamosan Maritime Lower Chehalis
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`cea`
Glottolog	`lowe1427`
Lower Chehalis is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.^[2]