Harshen Nuu-chah-nulth

a.k.a. Nootka ( / ˈ n uː tkə / ), Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh yaren Wakashan ne a cikin Pacific Northwest of North America a yammacin gabar tsibirin Vancouver, daga Barkley Sound zuwa Quatsino Sound a British Columbia ta mutanen Nuu-chah-nulth . Nuu-chah-nulth harshe ne na Kudancin Wakashan mai alaƙa da Nitinaht da Makah

Yaren farko ne na ƴan asalin yankin Tekun Arewa maso Yamma na Pacific don samun rubuce-rubucen rubuce-rubucen da ke bayyana shi. A cikin 1780s, Captains Vancouver, Quadra, da sauran masu bincike na Turai da 'yan kasuwa sun ziyarci Nootka Sound da sauran al'ummomin Nuu-chah-nulth, suna ba da rahotanni game da tafiya. Daga 1803–1805 John R. Jewitt, maƙeran ɗan ƙasar Ingila, ya kasance a hannun shugaba Maquinna a Nootka Sound . Ya yi ƙoƙari ya koyi harshen, kuma a cikin 1815 ya buga wani abin tunawa tare da taƙaitaccen ƙamus na sharuɗɗansa.

 Suna 
Tabbatar da kalmar "Nuu-chah-nulth", ma'ana "tare da waje [na tsibirin Vancouver]" ya samo asali daga shekarun 1970, lokacin da ƙungiyoyi daban-daban na masu magana da wannan harshe suka haɗu tare, suna ƙin kalmar "Nootka" (wanda ke nufin). "ku zaga" kuma an yi kuskure an fahimci sunan wani wuri, wanda a zahiri ake kira Yuquot ). Sunan da majiyoyin farko suka ba wa wannan harshe shine Tahkaht ; An yi amfani da wannan sunan kuma don komawa ga kansu (tushen aht yana nufin "mutane"). Some account of the Tahkaht language, as spoken by several tribes on the western coast of Vancouver island , Hatchard and Co., London, 1868

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 Consonants 
Haɗin kai 35 na Nuu-chah-nult :
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Baƙaƙen pharyngeal sun samo asali ne daga haɗuwa da sautunan uvul ;  ya samo asali daga hadewar  da  (waɗanda a yanzu ba su da yawa) yayin da  ya fito ne daga haɗewar  da  (waɗanda a yanzu ba sa cikin harshen). 

 Wasula 
Nuu-chah-nulth wasulan suna tasiri ta wurin baƙaƙen da ke kewaye da wasu baƙaƙen "baya" waɗanda ke daidaita ƙasa, ƙarin allophones na baya.
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