Quinault (''Kʷínaył'') 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 C ...

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 ...

Phonology

Vowels are represented as /i ə u a/ and /iː uː aː/.

References

Coast Salish languages Quinault {{na-lang-stub