Tututni language
Tututni | |
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Tutudin, Coquille, Lower Rogue River | |
Rogue River | |
Native to | Oregon |
Ethnicity | Coquille tribe, Tututni tribe (including Euchre Creek band), Chasta Costa tribe |
Extinct | 1983[1] |
Dené–Yeniseian?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:tuu – Tututnicoq – Coquille |
Glottolog | tutu1242 Tututnicoqu1236 Coquille |
Tututni (Dotodəni, alternatively "Tutudin"), also known as Coquille and (Lower) Rogue River, is an extinct Athabaskan 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. Ten speakers remained in 1961; the last fluent speaker died in 1983.[1] In 2006 students at Linfield College participated in a project to "revitalize the language." [2] It is one of the four languages belonging to the Oregon Athabaskan cluster of the Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages.
Dialects were Coquille (Upper Coquille, Mishikhwutmetunee), spoken along the upper Coquille River;[1] 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[3]:
Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
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plain | lab. | ||||||||
Plosive | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | |||
aspirated | tʰ | ||||||||
ejective | tʼ | kʼ | kʼʷ | ||||||
Affricate | plain | tʃ | |||||||
aspirated | tʃʰ | ||||||||
ejective | tsʼ | tʂʼ | tɬʼ | tʃʼ | |||||
Fricative | plain | s | ʂ | ɬ | ʃ | x | xʷ | h | |
voiced | ɣ | ɣʷ | |||||||
Sonorant | m | n | l | j |
Vowels in Tututni are /i e a o ə/.
References
- ^ a b c Tututni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Coquille at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ [1]
- ^ Golla, Victor (1976). Tututni (Oregon Athapaskan). pp. 217–227.
Further reading
- Golla, Victor K. "Tututni (Oregon Athapascan)." International Journal of American Linguistics 42 (1976): 217-227.
- Don Macnaughtan. "Oregon Athapaskan Languages: Bibliography of the Athapaskan Languages of Oregon". Retrieved 2018-05-30.
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External links
- OLAC resources in and about the Coquille language
- OLAC resources in and about the Tututni language
- Chasta Costa at the California Language Archive
- Tututni at the California Language Archive
- Upper Coquille at the California Language Archive