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Kathlamet was a Chinookan language that was spoken around the border of Washington and Oregon by the Kathlamet people. The most extensive records of the language were made by Franz Boas, and a grammar was documented in the dissertation of Dell Hymes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dell H. Hymes Papers :: American Philosophical Society )〕 It became extinct in the 1930s and there is little text left of it. Kathlamet was spoken in northwestern Oregon along the south bank of the lower Columbia River. It has been classified as a dialect of Upper Chinook, or as Lower Chinook, but was mutually intelligible with neither. ==Phonology== All of the Chinookan languages feature what Mithun (1999) describes as “rich consonant inventor(y) typical of (native to ) the Northwest coast” and “elaborate phonological processes”. Kathlamet contains bilabial, dental, velar, and uvular stops p, t, k, q, and lateral and palatal affricatives χ, ts, Also lateral, dental, velar, uvular, and laryngeal fricatives, ɬ, tɬ, x, h and nasal m, n. Boas (1911b) reports that Kathlamet consonant clusters are defined by their position to the word initial, medial and final and the phonemic syllable initial and final. In sequences of consonant where a continuant occurs as nucleus, consonants following the nucleus are taken to appear the separate clusters, the nucleus in none. Consonants Vowels Kathlamet lacks many of the distinguishing features found among the dialects of Upper Chinook including extensive use of sound symbolism, pervasive intervocalic voicing of consonants, and an elaborate tense prefix system. It also features a different collection of initial nominal prefixes and some additional morphemes, such as independent pronouns. (Mithun 1999) The glides are analyzed as allophones of the high vowels. 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「Kathlamet language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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