• Source: Wailaki language

      • Wailaki, also known as Eel River, is an extinct and revitalizing 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. While less documented than Hupa, it is considered to be close to it. It went dormant in the 1960s, but in modern times it is being revived.


      Phonology


      The sounds in Wailaki:


      = Consonants

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      = Vowels

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


      Grammar


      Wailaki is polysynthetic, meaning that a single word in it is expressed in English as a sentence.


      References



      Goddard, Pliny E. (1923). "Wailaki Texts". International Journal of American Linguistics. 2 (3/4): 77–135. doi:10.1086/463738. JSTOR 1263274. S2CID 224806395.
      Seaburg, William R. (1977). "A Wailaki (Athapaskan) Text with Comparative Notes". International Journal of American Linguistics. 43 (4): 327–332. doi:10.1086/465503. S2CID 144969995.
      Begay, Kayla Rae (2017). Wailaki Grammar (Ph.D. thesis). University of California Berkeley.


      External links


      Wailaki language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
      Wailaki Language (Sinkyone, Lassik, Nongatl, Eel River Athabaskan)
      OLAC resources in and about the Wailaki language
      Wailaki at the California Language Archive

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