Chimakuan languages

Chimakum is a two individual languages ​​language family, spoken in the northwest of the American state of Washington. The eponymous Chimakum language is extinct. The language of the family, Quileute, still has about ten speakers. Maybe the Chimakum languages ​​are distantly related to the Wakashan languages ​​, but can also be attributed to areal contact phenomena.

Phonology

The underlying for the two languages ​​proto-language set- phoneme inventory is as follows: