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[ that’s so interesting though. Like looking at it it seems so impossible to pronounce. ]
[ out of howls. ] Quileute is famous for its lack of nasal sounds, such as [m], [n], or nasal vowels, an areal feature of Puget Sound.[3] Quileute is polysynthetic and words can be quite long. Quileute has three vowels, /e/, /a/, /o/ long and short (pronounced [i], [ə], [o] when short and in non-tonic syllables), as well as /æː/ which only occurs long. Stress is historically penultimate, though this has become somewhat obscured and is no longer predictable. (t͡ɬ and ɡ are rare). Quileute is also known for its explicitly (solely) soft palette.