Phonology
Quileute has three vowels, /e/, /a/, /o/ long and short (pronounced, when short and in non-tonic syllables), as well as /æː/ which only occurs long. Stress is historically penultimate, though this has become somewhat obscured and is no longer predictable. It has the following consonants (t͡ɬ and ɡ are rare):
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | t | k | kʷ | q | qʷ | ʔ | |||
| b | d | (ɡ) | ||||||||
| pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | kʼʷ | qʼ | qʼʷ | |||||
| Affricate | t͡s | (t͡ɬ) | t͡ʃ | |||||||
| t͡sʼ | t͡ɬʼ | t͡ʃʼ | ||||||||
| Fricative | s | ɬ | ʃ | x | xʷ | χ | χʷ | h | ||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||||||
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