Wailaki, also known as Eel River, is an extinct Athabaskan language spoken by the people of the Round Valley Reservation of northern California, one of four languages belonging to the California Athabaskan cluster of the Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages. Dialect clusters reflect the four Wailaki-speaking peoples, the Sinkyone, Wailaki, Nongatl, and Lassik, of the Eel River confederation.

Phonology

The sounds in Wailaki:

Wailaki language

Consonants

Vowels

Vowels in Wailaki are /i e a o/, and with length as /iː eː aː oː/.

Wailaki language

References

External links

Wailaki language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Wailaki Language (Sinkyone, Lassik, Nongatl, Eel River Athabaskan) OLAC resources in and about the Wailaki language Wailaki at the California Language Archive

Wailaki language

Indigenous languages of California

Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages

Eel River Athapaskan peoples