1. Family: Chimakuan
  2. Genus: Chimakuan

Quileute

WALS coordinates: 47° 55′ N, 124° 15′ W

spoken in United States

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Quileute
Routledge:
Other:
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Moderately large Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio High Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/ Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants Uvular stops and continuants Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants Ejectives only Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/ and lateral obstruent Phonology
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9A The Velar Nasal No velar nasal Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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13A Tone Simple tone system Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants No nasals Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
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23A Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking Morphology
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24A Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Head marking Morphology
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25A Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other Morphology
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25B Zero Marking of A and P Arguments Non-zero marking Morphology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing Morphology
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27A Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one' Nominal Categories
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41A Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Four-way contrast Nominal Categories
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44A Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person only, but also non-singular Nominal Categories
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48A Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Absent Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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58A Obligatory Possessive Inflection Exists Nominal Syntax
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58B Number of Possessive Nouns None reported Nominal Syntax
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59A Possessive Classification Two classes Nominal Syntax
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77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only Verbal Categories
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78A Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb VS Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN Word Order
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100A Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative Simple Clauses
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102A Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments Simple Clauses
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103A Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization Simple Clauses
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104A Order of Person Markers on the Verb P precedes A Simple Clauses
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107A Passive Constructions Present Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative auxiliary verb Simple Clauses
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113A Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Asymmetric Simple Clauses
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114A Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Fin Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology Simple Clauses
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117A Predicative Possession Topic Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Identical Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Identical Lexicon
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130B Cultural Categories of Languages with Identity of 'Finger' and 'Hand' Hunter-gatherers Lexicon
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131A Numeral Bases Decimal Lexicon
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136A M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns Lexicon
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136B M in First Person Singular No m in first person singular Lexicon
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137A N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns Lexicon
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137B M in Second Person Singular No m in second person singular Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb NegVSO Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Immed preverbal Word Order
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144T The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages NegVSO Word Order
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144V Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative Separate word, no double negation Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144W Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object None Word Order
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144X Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative No clause-final neg Word Order
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