LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Wakashan Languages, Halkomelem

• School: UBC
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: TBA

Document Summary

Northern and western vancouver island is wakashan traditional territory. Salish and wakashan consonant consonant systems are very similar, and somewhat unusual to other systems around the world. But languages in the two groups do have one difference: just for plain stops, kwakw"ala (like most of the wakashan languages) uses a distinctive feature that is not used for any contrasts in halq"emeylem. For strops only, wakashan have voiced/voiceless pairs, so we would say voice is distinctive in the language, though onlu for that class of sounds.