Upper Chehalis language

Upper Chehalis
Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉
Native to	United States
Region	south of Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Ethnicity	Chehalis people
Extinct	2001^[1]
Language family	Salishan Coast Tsamosan Inland Upper Chehalis
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`cjh`
Glottolog	`uppe1439`^[2]

Upper Chehalis (Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉) is a member of the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. In some classifications, Upper Chehalis is placed closer to Cowlitz than it is to Lower Chehalis.

References

↑ Upper Chehalis at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Upper 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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