Tututni (''Dotodəni'', alternatively "Tutudin"), also known as Upper Coquille, (Lower) Rogue River and Nuu-wee-ya, is an
Athabaskan
Athabaskan (also spelled ''Athabascan'', ''Athapaskan'' or ''Athapascan'', and also known as Dene) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three areal language groups: Northern, Pacific C ...
language once spoken by three
Tututni (Lower Rogue River Athabaskan) tribes: Tututni tribe (including Euchre Creek band), Coquille tribe, and
Chasta Costa tribe who are part of the
Rogue River Indian peoples of southwestern
Oregon
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. In 2006 students at
Linfield College
Linfield University is a private university with campuses in McMinnville, and Portland, Oregon. Linfield Wildcats athletics participates in the NCAA Division III Northwest Conference. Linfield reported a combined 1,755 students after the fall ...
participated in a project to "revitalize the language."
[http://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1316&context=linfield_magazine ] It is one of the four languages belonging to the ''Oregon Athabaskan'' cluster of the
Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages
Pacific Coast Athabaskan is a geographical and possibly genealogical grouping of the Athabaskan language family.
California Athabaskan
: 1. Hupa (dining'-xine:wh, a.k.a. Hoopa-Chilula)
:: dialects:
::* Hupa
::* Tsnungwe
::: - tse:ning-xwe
::: - ...
.
Dialects were Coquille (Upper Coquille, Mishikhwutmetunee), spoken along the upper
Coquille River;
[ Tututni (Tututunne, Naltunnetunne, Mikonotunne, Kwatami, Chemetunne, Chetleshin, Khwaishtunnetunnne); Euchre Creek, and Chasta Costa (Illinois River, ''Šista Qʼʷə́sta'').
]
Phonology
The following lists the consonant and vowel sounds in the Tututni language:
References
Further reading
* Golla, Victor K.br>"Tututni (Oregon Athapascan)."
''International Journal of American Linguistics 42'' (1976): 217-227.
*
External links
OLAC resources in and about the Coquille languageresources in and about the Tututni languageChasta Costa at the California Language ArchiveTututni at the California Language ArchiveUpper Coquille at the California Language Archive
Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages
Extinct languages of North America
Languages extinct in the 1980s
1983 disestablishments in Oregon
Tututni
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