Cowlitz language
Cowlitz Salish | |
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ƛʼpúlmixq | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Southwestern Washington |
Extinct | 1960s |
Revival | revival efforts underway |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | cow |
Glottolog | cowl1242 |
Cowlitz (Cowlitz: ƛʼpúlmixq),[1] also known as Cowlitz Salish,[2] is a Tsamosan language of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. It was spoken by the Lower Cowlitz people of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and is spoken today by both Lower and Upper Cowlitz people. Although it went dormant in the 1960s, it is being revitalized by the Cowlitz Tribe.[citation needed]
Cowlitz people
The Cowlitz people were originally two distinct tribes: the Lower Cowlitz and the Upper Cowlitz, sometimes called the Taidnapam. Only the Lower Cowlitz originally spoke Cowlitz Salish. The Upper Cowlitz spoke a Sahaptin language.[3]
Phonology
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||
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central | sibilant | lateral | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | |||||
Plosive/ Affricate |
plain | p | t | ts | tʃ | k | kʷ | q | qʷ | ʔ | |
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | tsʼ | tɬʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | qʼ | qʷʼ | ||
Fricative | s | ɬ | ʃ | x | xʷ | χ | χʷ | h | |||
Sonorant | plain | m | n | l | j | w | |||||
glottalized | mˀ | nˀ | lˀ | jˀ | wˀ |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Mid | e eː | ə | oː |
Open | a aː |
Vocabulary
Cowlitz is most similar to Lower Chehalis, another Tsamosan language, although it contains some oddities, such as the word for one, utsus (in contrast to the Lower Chehalis paw).
English | Cowlitz |
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Lower Cowlitz tribe | Sł'púlmš |
one (number) | utsus |
two | salli |
three | kałi |
four | mus |
five | tsilats |
to sing | ilani |
moon/sun | Łuqał |
dog | kaxa |
water | kal'l |
man | siłimx |
woman | kuwił |
References
- ^ "Cowlitz Coast Salish Dictionary". Cowlitz Salish Dictionary. Cowlitz Indian Tribe. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "Cowlitz Salish Language Learning". Cowlitz Salish. The Language Conservancy. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "Our Story". The Cowlitz Indian Tribe. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ a b Kinkade, Marvin Dale (2004). Cowlitz dictionary and grammatical sketch. Missoula, MT: Linguistics Laboratory, University of Montana. pp. 219–224.
Further reading
- "Vocabulary Words in the Salishan Language Family". Native-Languages.org.
- Kinkade, Dale (2004). Cowlitz Dictionary and Grammatical Sketch. Missoula: University of Montana Press. ISBN 9781879763180.
See also
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