Tututni language

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Tututni
Tutudin, Coquille, Lower Rogue River
Rogue River
Native to
Chasta Costa tribe
Extinct1983[1]
Revival2006
?
Dialects
  • Coquille
  • Tututni
  • Euchre Creek
  • Chasta Costa
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
tuu – Tututni
coq – Coquille
Glottologtutu1242  Tututni
coqu1236  Coquille

Tututni (Dotodəni, alternatively "Tutudin"), also known as Upper Coquille, (Lower) Rogue River and Nuu-wee-ya,

Linfield College participated in a project to "revitalize the language."[3] 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:[4]

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
plain lat. sib. plain
lab.
Plosive/
Affricate
plain p
t
k ʔ
aspirated tʃʰ
ejective
tɬʼ tsʼ tʂʼ tʃʼ kʷʼ
Fricative
ɬ
s ʂ ʃ x h
Sonorant m
n
l
j ɣ ɣʷ
Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i
Mid e ə o
Open a

References

  1. ^ a b Tututni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Coquille at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "National Breath of Life | Myaamia Center - Miami University".
  3. ^ Davis, Laura. "Saving Language from Extinction". Retrieved 2024-02-14.
  4. ^ Golla, Victor (1976). Tututni (Oregon Athapaskan). pp. 217–227.

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