Quileute language

Quileute
Kʷòʔlíyotʼ
Native to	Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Ethnicity	500 Quileute (2007)
Extinct	1999
Language family	Chimakuan Quileute
Dialects	Hoh
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	`quil1240`
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Quileute /ˈkwɪlᵻjuːt/, also known as Quillayute /kwᵻˈleɪjuːt/, was the last Chimakuan language, spoken until the end of the 20th century by Quileute and Makah elders on the western coast of the Olympic peninsula south of Cape Flattery at La Push and the lower Hoh River in Washington State, United States. The name Quileute comes from kʷoʔlí·yot’ [kʷoʔléːjotʼ], the name of a village at La Push.

Quileute is famous for its lack of nasal sounds, such as [m], [n], or nasal vowels, an areal feature of Puget Sound. Quileute is polysynthetic and words can be quite long.