Cowlitz language

Cowlitz language
Cowlitz
Spoken in United States
Region Southwestern Washington
Native speakers extinct (ethnic population: 200)[1]  (date missing)
Language family
Salishan
  • Tsamosan
    • Cowlitz
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cow

The Cowlitz language is a member of the Tsamosan (Olympic) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages.

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The Cowltiz tribe

The 'Cowlitz tribe' was originally two distinct tribes: the Lower Cowlitz and the Upper Cowlitz. Only the Lower Cowlitz spoke Cowlitz; the Upper Cowlitz, a Sahaptin tribe, spoke a dialect of Yakama.

Vocabulary

Cowlitz is most similar to Lower Chehalis, another Tsamosan language, although it does contains some oddities, such as the word for one, utsus (in contrast to the Lower Chehalis paw).

English Cowlitz
Lower Cowlitz tribe Sł'púlmš
one (number) utsus
two salli
three kałi
four mus

References

  1. ^ Ethnologue.

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