Tututni language

Native American language spoken in Oregon
Tututni
Tutudin, Coquille, Lower Rogue River, Rogue River
Dotodəni
Native toOregon
EthnicityCoquille tribe, Tututni tribe (including Euchre Creek band), Chasta Costa tribe
Extinct1983[1]
3 (2006)[2]
Revival12 (2006)[2]
Language family
Dené–Yeniseian?
Dialects
  • Coquille
  • Tututni
  • Euchre Creek
  • Chasta Costa
  • Mikwanutni
  • Sixes
  • Pistol River
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
tuu – Tututni
coq – Coquille
Glottologtutu1242  Tututni
coqu1236  Coquille
Tututni is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
[3]

Tututni (Dotodəni, alternatively Tutudin tu-tu-DE-NE),[4] also known as Upper Coquille, (Lower) Rogue River and Nuu-wee-ya,[5] is an Athabaskan language spoken by three Tututni (Lower Rogue River Athabaskan) tribes: the Tututni tribe (including Euchre Creek band), the Coquille tribe, and the 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."[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:[6]

Consonants
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
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. ^ a b c Davis, Laura. "Saving Language from Extinction". Retrieved 2024-02-14.
  3. ^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 11.
  4. ^ Register-Guard, Karen McCowan, The (Eugene) (2002-10-28). "Elderly Tututni speaks life into extinct language". The Coos Bay World. Retrieved 2024-07-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "National Breath of Life | Myaamia Center - Miami University".
  6. ^ Golla, Victor (July 1976). "Tututni (Oregon Athapaskan)". International Journal of American Linguistics. 42 (3): 217–227. doi:10.1086/465417. ISSN 0020-7071.

Further reading

  • Don Macnaughtan (10 February 2014). "Oregon Athapaskan Languages: Bibliography of the Athapaskan Languages of Oregon". Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  • 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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