Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages

Pacific Coast Athabaskan is a geographical and possibly genealogical grouping of the Athabaskan language family.

Pacific Coast Athabascan
Geographic
distribution		California, Oregon
Linguistic classificationDené–Yeniseian?
Subdivisions
  • California
  • Oregon
Glottologpaci1277[1]

California Athabaskan
1. Hupa (a.k.a. Hoopa-Chilula)
dialects:
  • Hupa
  • Chilula-Whilkut
- Chilula
- Whilkut
2. Mattole–Bear River - extinct
dialects:
3. Wailaki ("Eel River", spoken by the Eel River Athapaskan peoples) - extinct
dialects:
  • Sinkyone
  • Wailaki
  • Nongatl
  • Lassik
4. Cahto (a.k.a. Kato) (sometimes included in Eel River) - extinct

Often the Mattole and Wailaki-speaking groups together are called Southern Athapaskans. Their languages were similar to each other, but differed from the northern California tribes whose languages were also part of the Athapaskan family. They are not to be confused with the Apachean peoples (the Apache and Navajo) - also known as Southern Athabascans - of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico, who speak the Southern Athabaskan languages.

Oregon Athabaskan
4. Upper Umpqua (a.k.a. Etnemitane)
5. Lower Rogue River (a.k.a. Tututni, Coquille)
dialects:
  • Upper Coquille
- Coquille (a.k.a. Mishikwutinetunne)
- Flores Creek (a.k.a. Kosotshe, Kusu'me, Lukkarso)
  • Tututni
- Tututunne
- Naltunnetunne
- Mikwunutunne (a.k.a. Mikonotunne)
- Joshua (a.k.a. Chemetunne)
- Sixes (a.k.a. Kwatami)
- Pistol River (a.k.a. Chetleshin)
- Wishtenatin (a.k.a. Khwaishtunnetunnne)
  • Euchre Creek (a.k.a. Yukichetunne)
  • Chasta Costa (a.k.a. Illinois River, Chastacosta, Chasta Kosta)
6. Upper Rogue River (a.k.a. Galice–Applegate)
dialects:
  • Galice (a.k.a. Taltushtuntede)
  • Applegate (a.k.a. Nabiltse, Dakubetede)
7. Tolowa
dialects:
  • Chetco
  • Smith River (a.k.a. Tolowa)

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Pacific Coast Athabaskan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Bibliography
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