Wailaki

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Wailaki is an Indigenous Athabaskan language traditionally spoken by the Wailaki people of northern California.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Wailaki canonical 11

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language
moribund language
associatedWithTribe Round Valley Indian Tribes
closelyRelatedTo Bear River language
Hupa
Mattole
continent North America
country United States
documentedBy linguists in the 20th century
ethnicGroup Wailaki
hasDialect Eel River Wailaki
North Fork Wailaki
hasFeature complex verb morphology
rich consonant inventory
tone-less phonology
iso639-3 wlk
languageBranch Na-Dene
languageFamily Athabaskan
region Eel River area
revitalizationEfforts community-based language programs
spokenIn northern California
linked to: Northern California
status nearly extinct
severely endangered
subfamily Pacific Coast Athabaskan
subgroup California Athabaskan
traditionalSpeakers Wailaki people
traditionalTerritory Eel River watershed in California
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yuki neighboringPeople Wailaki
Wailaki ethnicGroup Wailaki
Lassik relatedTo Wailaki
Kato closelyRelatedTo Wailaki
Cahto neighboringLanguages Wailaki
Cahto relatedTo Wailaki
Mattole isRelatedTo Wailaki