Editing Quileute (section)

==Language==
{{Main|Quileute language}}
The Quileute tribe speaks a language called [[Quileute language|Quileute]] or Quillayute, which is part of the [[Chimakuan languages|Chimakuan]] family of languages. The [[Chimakum]], who also spoke a Chimakuan language (called Chemakum, Chimakum, or Chimacum,) were the only other group of people to speak a language from this [[language family]].

In 1999, the last native speaker of the Quileute language died, meaning the language is considered extinct, although three or four users in their 50s retain some knowledge of vocabulary.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/qui/|title=Quileute|website=Ethnologue|date=November 19, 2019}}</ref> Up until then, it was spoken only by tribal elders at [[La Push]], and some of the [[Makah people|Makah]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2013}}

Quileute is one of the 13 known languages that are recorded to have no [[nasal consonant]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wals.info/chapter/18|title=Absence of Common Consonants|website=World Atlas of Language Structure (WALS) Online}}</ref> The tribe is now trying to prevent the loss of the language by teaching it in the Quileute Tribal School, using books written for the students by the tribal elders.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://quileutenation.org/language/|title=The Quileute Language|website=Quileute Nation}}</ref>

The Quileute Nation Culture and Language Committee released a language and culture app in 2021 in an effort to preserve the language and culture of their people.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Quileute |url=https://quileute.herokuapp.com/#/credit |access-date=May 29, 2022 |website=quileute.herokuapp.com}}</ref> Efforts to introduce Quileute phrases into everyday life was started in 2007 through the Quileute Revitalization Project, by providing tribe members with accessible information on basic vocabulary words and phrases.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Powell |first=J. V. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2224773 |title=Quileute : an introduction to the Indians of La Push |date=1976 |publisher=University of Washington Press |others=Vickie Jensen |isbn=0-295-95492-2 |location=Seattle |oclc=2224773}}</ref> The Quileute Nation has continued this project through downloadable alphabet sheets and providing audiobooks read in Quileute.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Language {{!}} Quileute Tribe |url=https://quileutenation.org/language/ |access-date=May 29, 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref>