Quinault | |
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Kʷínaył | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Olympic Peninsula, Washington |
Ethnicity | 1,500 Quinault people (1977)[1] |
Extinct | 1996[1] half a dozen know some vocabulary (2007)[1] |
Revival | revival efforts underway[1][2][3] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | qun |
Glottolog | quin1251 |
Quinault (Kʷínaył) is a member of the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. It is extinct, but efforts are being taken to revitalize it.