Lower Chehalis language

Lower Chehalis
Łəw̓ál̕məš
Native to	United States
Region	south of Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Ethnicity	Chehalis people
Extinct	(date missing)^[1]
Language family	Salishan Coast Tsamosan Maritime Lower Chehalis
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`cea`
Glottolog	`lowe1427`^[2]

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.

References

↑ Lower Chehalis at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lower Chehalis". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Salishan languages

Bella Coola

Nuxálk

Coast Salish

Central	Comox Halkomelem Klallam Lushootseed Nooksack Northern Straits Pentlatch Sechelt Squamish Twana

Tsamosan	Cowlitz Lower Chehalis Upper Chehalis Quinault

Tillamook	Tillamook

Interior Salish

Northern	Lillooet Shuswap Thompson River Salish

Southern	Coeur d’Alene Columbia-Moses Colville-Okanagan Montana Salish

Italics indicate extinct languages

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