1. Family: Chimakuan
  2. Genus: Chimakuan

Quileute

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

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Moderately large
      Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio High
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
      Uvular Consonants Uvular stops and continuants
      Glottalized Consonants Ejectives only
      Lateral Consonants /l/ and lateral obstruent
      The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Tone Simple tone system
      Absence of Common Consonants No nasals
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Morphology
      Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking
      Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Head marking
      Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
      Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Four-way contrast
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person only, but also non-singular
      Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Obligatory Possessive Inflection Exists
      Possessive Classification Two classes
      Verbal Categories
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
      Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
      Order of Subject and Verb VS
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
      Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb P precedes A
      Passive Constructions Present
      Negative Morphemes Negative auxiliary verb
      Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Asymmetric
      Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Fin
      Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
      Predicative Possession Topic
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Identical
      Finger and Hand Identical
      Numeral Bases Decimal
      M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
      N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns