Tututni language

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]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
tuu – Tututni
coq – Coquille
Glottolog tutu1242  Tututni[2]
coqu1236  Coquille[3]

Tututni (Dotodəni, alternatively "Tutudin"), also known as Coquille and (Lower) Rogue River, is an extinct 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. Ten speakers remained in 1961; the last fluent speaker died in 1983.[1] 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.

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]:

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Retroflex Lateral Palatal Velar Glottal
plain lab.
Plosive plain p t k kʷ ʔ
aspirated tʰ
ejective tʼ kʼ kʼʷ
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

  1. 1 2 3 Tututni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Coquille at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tututni". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Coquille". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ 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.


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