| Upper Chehalis | |
| Nativename: | Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉ |
| States: | United States |
| Region: | south of Olympic Peninsula, Washington |
| Ethnicity: | Chehalis people |
| Extinct: | 2001 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Salishan |
| Fam2: | Coast |
| Fam3: | Tsamosan |
| Fam4: | Inland |
| Iso3: | cjh |
| Glotto: | uppe1439 |
| Glottorefname: | Upper Chehalis |
| Map: | Lang Status 01-EX.svg |
| Mapcaption: | [1] |
Upper Chehalis (Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉) is a member of the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. Thompson's 1979 classification lists Upper Chehalis as more closely related to the Cowlitz language than it is to Lower Chehalis.[2]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| central | sibilant | lateral | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | ||||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | plain | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| ejective | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Sonorant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | pronounced as /link/ |