Lower Chehalis (''Łəw̓ál̕məš'') is a member of the
Tsamosan (or
Olympic Peninsula
The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and th ...
) branch of the
Coast Salish
The Coast Salish is a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. They speak one of the Coa ...
family of
Salishan languages
The Salishan (also Salish) languages are a family of languages of the Pacific Northwest in North America (the Canadian province of British Columbia and the American states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana). They are characterised by a ...
. In some classifications, Lower Chehalis is placed closer to
Quinault than it is to
Upper Chehalis.
Phonology
Vowels are represented as and .
Allophones are also noted.
References
Coast Salish languages
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