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Comox, also known as K'omoks, Sliammon, ''(unicode:ɬəʔamɛn)'' and Ayeahjuthum,〔''Sliammon Life, Sliammon Lands'', Dorothy Kennedy & Randy Bouchard, BCILP, Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1983, quoted in (BC Names/GeoBC entry "Grace Harbour" )〕 is a Coast Salish language historically spoken in the northern Georgia Strait region, spanning the east coast of Vancouver Island and the northern Sunshine Coast and adjoining inlets and islands. It has two main dialects, Island Comox, associated with the K'omoks First Nation, and Mainland Comox, associated with the Sliammon(''?ay?adzhúth@m''), Klahoose and Homalhco peoples. As of 2012, "The Island Comox dialect has no remaining speakers," according to Ethnologue. A Sliammon iPhone app was released in March 2012. An online dictionary, phrasebook, and language learning portal is available at First Voices. ==Transcription== The sound inventory is transcribed as follows:〔Smithsonian Institution Handbook of North American Indians, Vol.7 Northwest Coast, pp.441〕 * Tenuis occlusives: * Ejective occlusives: (unicode:pʼ, tʼ, θ̂’, čʼ, λ’, kʼ, kʷʼ, qʼ, qʷʼ) * Voiced occlusives: * Fricatives: * Nasals: * Glottalized resonants: (unicode:mʼ, nʼ, lʼ, wʼ, yʼ) * Short vowels: * Long vowels: (unicode:i: (ɛ:), a:, u:) * Stress: (unicode:v́) Phonological features: Comox has a larɡe number of uvular consonants (). Czaykowski-Higgins notes that "phonetic work on Salish has mainly focused on the properties of uvular, pharyngeal, and retracting consonants. This is hardly surprising given that few language families have as extensive postvelar inventories as those found in Salish."〔Czaykowski-Higgins et al (1998)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Comox language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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