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Name:
Quileute
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Quillayute; Quile-ute
Once Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
10 (1977 SIL). Ethnic population: 300 (1977 SIL)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
10
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
qui
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Chimakuan
Parent Subgroup:
Chimakuan; Chemakuan; Chimukuan Family; Mosan (chmn)
Brief Description:
"Quileute, one of the two languages of the Chemakuan family, was spoken on the west coast of the Olympic PEninsula in northwest Washington, in a territory south of the Makah and north of the Quinault. The Quileutes now live on two small reservations, Quileute (at La Push) and Lower Hoh River, which have a combined population of less than 500. Although as recently as 1986 ten first-language speakers of Quileute remained, the last speaker died in 1999." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 21
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Quileute
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