Tututni language

Tututni
Tutudin, Coquille, Lower Rogue River
Rogue River
Native toOregon
EthnicityCoquille tribe, Tututni tribe (including Euchre Creek band), Chasta Costa tribe
Extinct1983[1]
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,[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.

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.

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


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