Chimakuan languages

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The Chimakuan languages are a small family of now-extinct Indigenous languages once spoken in the Pacific Northwest of North America, particularly on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Chimakuan languages canonical 5
Chimakuan language 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous language family
language family
alignment active–stative alignment (Quileute)
alternativeName Chimakuan NERFINISHED
Chimakuan family NERFINISHED
Quileute–Chemakum NERFINISHED
arealAssociation Northwest Coast linguistic area NERFINISHED
Pacific Northwest Sprachbund NERFINISHED
causeOfEndangerment assimilation policies in the United States
colonialism
language shift to English
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentationStatus moderately documented (Quileute)
poorly documented (Chemakum)
extinction 20th century
familyColor American
geneticRelation language isolate family (no proven relatives)
hasGlottologCode chim1310
hasGlottologName Chimakuan NERFINISHED
hasISOClassification no ISO 639-5 code
hasMember Chemakum language NERFINISHED
Chimacum language NERFINISHED
Chimakum language NERFINISHED
Quileute language NERFINISHED
historicalEra post-contact colonial period
pre-contact North America
linguisticTypology polysynthetic language family
morphologicalFeature complex verbal morphology
derivational affixation
incorporation of nouns into verbs
notableLanguage Chemakum language NERFINISHED
Quileute language NERFINISHED
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some varieties)
glottalized consonants
rich consonant inventory
primaryRegion Olympic Peninsula NERFINISHED
region Pacific Northwest
researchTopic historical linguistics of the Pacific Northwest
language contact on the Northwest Coast
spokenBy Chemakum people NERFINISHED
Chimakum people NERFINISHED
Quileute people NERFINISHED
state Washington
status extinct
subclassOf Native American language family
North American indigenous language family
wordOrder flexible word order

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Salishan languages relatedTo Chimakuan languages
Wakashan languages relatedTo Chimakuan languages
Quinault people languageFamily Chimakuan languages
Hoh people originalLanguage Chimakuan languages
this entity surface form: Chimakuan language
North American language family includes Chimakuan languages
Quileute languageFamily Chimakuan languages