Upper Chehalis (''Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉'') is a member of the
Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the
Coast Salish
The Coast Salish is a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. They speak one of the Coa ...
family of
Salishan languages
The Salishan (also Salish) languages are a family of languages of the Pacific Northwest in North America (the Canadian province of British Columbia and the American states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana). They are characterised by a ...
. Thompson's 1979 classification lists Upper Chehalis as more closely related to the
Cowlitz language than it is to
Lower Chehalis.
Phonology
References
External links
Upper Chehalis(
Intercontinental Dictionary Series)
Coast Salish languages
Languages extinct in the 2000s
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