| Tututni | |
|---|---|
| Tutudin, Coquille, Lower Rogue River, Rogue River | |
| Dotodəni | |
| Native to | Oregon |
| Ethnicity | Coquille tribe,Tututni tribe (including Euchre Creek band),Chasta Costa tribe |
| Extinct | 1983[1] 3 (2006)[2] |
| Revival | 12 (2006)[2] |
Dené–Yeniseian?
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:tuu – Tututnicoq – Coquille |
| Glottolog | tutu1242 Tututnicoqu1236 Coquille |
Tututni is classified as Extinct by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger. [3] | |
Tututni (Dotodəni, alternativelyTutudintu-tu-DE-NE),[4] also known asUpper Coquille,(Lower) Rogue River andNuu-wee-ya,[5] is anAthabaskan language spoken by threeTututni (Lower Rogue River Athabaskan) tribes: the Tututni tribe (including Euchre Creek band), the Coquille tribe, and theChasta Costa tribe, who are part of theRogue River Indian peoples of southwesternOregon. In 2006 students atLinfield College participated in a project to "revitalize the language."[2] It is one of the four languages belonging to theOregon Athabaskan cluster of thePacific Coast Athabaskan languages.
Dialects wereCoquille (Upper Coquille,Mishikhwutmetunee), spoken along the upperCoquille River;[1]Tututni (Tututunne, Naltunnetunne, Mikonotunne, Kwatami, Chemetunne, Chetleshin, Khwaishtunnetunnne);Euchre Creek, andChasta Costa (Illinois River,Šista Qʼʷə́sta).
The following lists the consonant and vowel sounds in the Tututni language:[6]
| 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 |
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