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Quileute / ˈ k w ɪ l ɪ j uː t /, [2] sometimes alternatively anglicized as Quillayute / k w ɪ ˈ l eɪ j uː t /, is an extinct language, and was the last Chimakuan language, spoken natively until the end of the 20th century by Quileute and Makah elders on the western coast of the Olympic peninsula south of Cape Flattery at La Push and the lower Hoh River in Washington state, United States.
During the late 20th and early 21st centuries a revitalization effort began, and it is today spoken as a second language by a relatively small amount of the Quileute tribe on the west coast of the Olympic Peninsula, south of Cape Flattery. The name Quileute comes from kʷoʔlí·yot' [kʷoʔléːjotʼ], the name of a village at La Push.
The Quileute Nation Culture and Language Committee released a language and culture app in 2021 in an effort to preserve the language and culture of their people. [10] Efforts to introduce Quileute phrases into everyday life was started in 2007 through the Quileute Revitalization Project, by providing tribe members with accessible information on ...
Quillayute may refer to: . Quileute (tribe), or the Quillayute, a Native American people of western Washington state, United States Quillayute, also known as Quileute, a Chimakuan language of the Quileute and Makah people of western Washington state in the United States; see Quileute language
A 1887 visual dictionary from Japan, in English, kanji and katakana Japanese. Multilingual dictionaries are closely related to bilingual dictionaries. In a multilingual dictionary, a person looks up a word or phrase in one language and is presented with the translation in several languages.
The Chimakum language is a tribal language thought to be similar in lexicographic and phonetic aspect with very little diversion to the Quileute language, implying that the Chimakum, Salishan and Wakashan tribes may be proved to be genetically related.
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In the Quileute language the name is /kʷoʔlíːyot'/, which perhaps derived from /kʷolíː/ ("wolves"), [2] and was the name of a village at La Push. The Quillayute River is the current, traditional, and ancestral center of the territory of the Quileute Native Tribe , which before European settlement occupied the entire drainage basin (plus ...