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Preferred term

quiQuileute  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Quileute , also known as Quillayute , is the only surviving Chimakuan language, spoken by a few 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, USA. The name Quileute comes from kʷoʔlí·yot’ , the name of a village at La Push.

Entry terms

  • Quileute language

ISO 639-3 code

  • qui

Notation

  • qui

In other languages

  • Quileute

    French

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/qui

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