| Tillamook | |
|---|---|
| Hutyáyu, Hutyéyu | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Northwestern Oregon |
| Ethnicity | Tillamook, Siletz |
| Extinct | 1972, with the death of Minnie Scovell[1] |
Salishan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | til |
| Glottolog | till1254 |
Tillamook is an extinct Salishan language, formerly spoken by the Tillamook people in northwestern Oregon, United States. The last fluent speaker was Minnie Scovell who died in 1972.[2] In an effort to prevent the language from being lost, a group of researchers from the University of Hawaii interviewed the few remaining Tillamook-speakers and created a 120-page dictionary.[3]
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | ə |
| Low | æ | ɑ |
Consonants
| Alveolar | Postalveolar / palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central | Lateral | Unrounded | "Rounded" | Unrnd. | "Rnd." | |||
| Stop | t | k | kᵓ | q | qᵓ | ʔ | ||
| Ejective | tʼ | kʼ | kᵓʼ | qʼ | qᵓʼ | |||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||
| Ejective affricate | t͡sʼ | t͡ɬʼ | t͡ʃʼ | |||||
| Fricative | s | ɬ | ʃ | x | xᵓ | χ | χᵓ | h |
| Nasal | n | |||||||
| Approximant | l | j | ɰᵓ | |||||
Internal rounding
The so-called "rounded" consonants (traditionally marked with the diacritic ⟨ʷ⟩, but here indicated with ⟨ᵓ⟩), including rounded vowels and ⟨w⟩ (/ɰᵓ/), are not actually labialized. The acoustic effect of labialization is created entirely inside the mouth by cupping the tongue. Uvulars with this distinctive internal rounding have "a kind of ɔ timbre" while "rounded" front velars have ɯ coloring. These contrast and oppose otherwise very similar segments having ɛ or ɪ coloring—the "unrounded" consonants.
/w/ is also formed with this internal rounding instead of true labialization, making it akin to [ɰ]. So are vowel sounds formerly written as /o/ or /u/, which are best characterized as the diphthong /əɰ/ with increasing internal rounding.[4]
Notes
- ^ http://www.tillamookheadlightherald.com/news/a-language-all-but-lost/article_02ccab3e-1530-53b4-85a5-af8a1f88f26a.html
- ^ http://www.tillamookheadlightherald.com/news/a-language-all-but-lost/article_02ccab3e-1530-53b4-85a5-af8a1f88f26a.html
- ^ Official site of Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes Archived 2011-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Thompson & Thompson (1966), p. 316
Bibliography
- Thompson, Lawrence C.; M. Terry Thompson (1966). "A Fresh Look at Tillamook Phonology". International Journal of American Linguistics. 32 (4): 313–319. doi:10.1086/464920. S2CID 145658086.
- Edel, May M (1939). The Tillamook language. New York: J.J. Augustin. OCLC 10272025.
- "May M. Edel papers". Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries. Retrieved 2013-09-22.
External links
- University of Oregon: The Tillamook
- Tillamook Language
- "Tillamook Vocabulary". California Language Archive. Retrieved 2013-09-22.
- OLAC resources in and about the Tillamook language