Tututni (Dotodəni, alternatively "Tutudin"), also known as Upper Coquille, (Lower) Rogue River and Nuu-wee-ya,[2] is an 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. In 2006 students at 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.
| Tututni | |
|---|---|
| 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] |
| Revival | 2006 |
Dené–Yeniseian?
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:tuu – Tututnicoq – Coquille |
| Glottolog | tutu1242 Tututnicoqu1236 Coquille |
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 edit
The following lists the consonant and vowel sounds in the Tututni language:[4]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lat. | sib. | plain | lab. | ||||||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
plain | p | t | tʃ | k | kʷ | ʔ | |||
| aspirated | tʰ | tʃʰ | ||||||||
| ejective | tʼ | tɬʼ | tsʼ | tʂʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | |||
| Fricative | ɬ | s | ʂ | ʃ | x | xʷ | h | |||
| Sonorant | m | n | l | j | ɣ | ɣʷ | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ||
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a |
References edit
- ^ 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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
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