Oowekyala dialect

Oowekyala dialect
Oowekyala
Spoken in Northern Central Coast Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
Ethnicity Wuikinuxv people
Language family
Wakashan
  • Northern
    • Heiltsuk-Oowekyala
      • Oowekyala
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist List hei-??

Oowekyala (also Wuikala, Rivers Inlet, Wuikenukv, Oweekeno, Wikeno, Owikeno, Oowekeeno, Oweekano, Awikenox, Oowek'yala, Oweek'ala) is a dialect (or a sublanguage) of Heiltsuk-Oowekyala, a Northern Wakashan (Kwakiutlan) language spoken around Rivers Inlet and Owikeno Lake in the Central Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, spoken by the Wuikinuxv people, whose government is the Wuikinuxv Nation.

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Sounds

Consonants

The 45 consonants of Oowekyala:

  Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
central lateral plain labial plain labial
Nasal short m n              
long              
glottalized              
Plosive voiced b d     ɡ ɡʷ ɢ ɢʷ  
aspirated     kʷʰ qʷʰ  
ejective     kʷʼ qʷʼ ʔ
Affricate voiced   d͡ʒ d͡ɮ            
aspirated   t͡sʰ t͡ɬʰ            
ejective   t͡sʼ t͡ɬʼ            
Fricative voiced                 ɦ
voiceless   s ɬ   x χ χʷ  
Approximant short     l j   w      
long                
glottalized            

Phonologically, affricates are treated as stops, and nasals and approximants are treated as sonorants. Additionally, /ɦ/ and /ʔ/ are treated as sonorants.

Vowels

Oowekyala has phonemic short, long, and glottalized vowels.:

  Front Central Back
short long glottalized short long glottalized short long glottalized
Close i       u
Mid       ə          
Open       a      

Syllables

Oowekyala, like Nuxálk (Bella Coola), allows long sequences of obstruents, as in the following 7-obstruent word:

[t͡sʼkʷʼχtʰt͡ɬʰkʰt͡sʰ]  'the invisible one here-with-me will be short'   (Howe 2000: 5)

External links

Bibliography

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  • Boas, Franz. (1932). Bella Bella tales. Memoirs of the American Folklore Society (No. 25).
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  • Hilton, Suzanne; & Rath, John C. (1982). Oowekeeno oral traditions. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada.
  • Howe, Darin. (1998). Aspects of Heiltsuk laryngeal phonology. Ms., University of British Columbia.
  • Howe, Darin M. (2000). Oowekyala segmental phonology. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Ottawa).
  • Johnson, S.; Smith, H.; & Stevenson, D. (1983?). What time is it? Rivers Inlet, BC: Oowekyala Language Project.
  • Johnson, S.; Smith, H.; & Stevenson, D. (1983?). Fishing at Rivers Inlet. Rivers Inlet, BC: Oowekyala Language Project.
  • Johnson, S.; Smith, H.; & Stevenson, D. (1983?). Qaquthanugva uikala. Rivers Inlet, BC: Oowekyala Language Project.
  • Johnson, S.; Smith, H.; & Stevenson, D. (1983?). Sisa'kvimas. Rivers Inlet, BC: Oowekyala Language Project.
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