Tututni language
Tututni (Dotodəni, alternatively "Tutudin"), also known as Upper Coquille and (Lower) Rogue River, 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." [4] It is one of the four languages belonging to the Oregon Athabaskan cluster of the Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages.
Tututni | |
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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] |
Dené–Yeniseian?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:tuu – Tututnicoq – Coquille |
Glottolog | tutu1242 Tututni[2]coqu1236 Coquille[3] |
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[5]:
Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
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plain | lab. | ||||||||
Plosive | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | |||
aspirated | tʰ | ||||||||
ejective | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | ||||||
Affricate | plain | tʃ | |||||||
aspirated | tʃʰ | ||||||||
ejective | tsʼ | tʂʼ | tɬʼ | tʃʼ | |||||
Fricative | plain | s | ʂ | ɬ | ʃ | x | xʷ | h | |
voiced | ɣ | ɣʷ | |||||||
Sonorant | m | n | l | j |
Vowels in Tututni are /i e a o ə/.
References
- Tututni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Coquille at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tututni". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Coquille". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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. "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
- Upper Coquille at the California Language Archive