Tututni language
Tututni | |
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Tutudin, Coquille, Lower Rogue River | |
Rogue River | |
Native to | Chasta Costa tribe |
Extinct | 1983[1] |
Revival | 2006 |
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:tuu – Tututnicoq – Coquille |
Glottolog | tutu1242 Tututnicoqu1236 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]
Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
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plain | lat. | sib. | plain | lab.
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Plosive/ Affricate |
plain | p | t
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tʃ | k | kʷ | ʔ | |||
aspirated | tʰ | tʃʰ | ||||||||
ejective | tʼ
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tɬʼ | tsʼ | tʂʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | |||
Fricative | ɬ
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s | ʂ | ʃ | x | xʷ | h | |||
Sonorant | m | n
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l
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j | ɣ | ɣʷ |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | ||
Mid | e | ə | o |
Open | a |
References
- ^ a b Tututni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Coquille at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ "National Breath of Life | Myaamia Center - Miami University".
- ^ Davis, Laura. "Saving Language from Extinction". Retrieved 2024-02-14.
- ^ 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 (10 February 2014). "Oregon Athapaskan Languages: Bibliography of the Athapaskan Languages of Oregon". Retrieved 2018-05-30.
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 Archived 2013-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
- Upper Coquille at the California Language Archive Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine