Tututni (, alternatively Tutudin ), also known as Upper Coquille, (Lower) Rogue River and Nuu-wee-ya, is an
Athabaskan language spoken by three
Tututni (Lower Rogue River Athabaskan) tribes: the Tututni tribe (including Euchre Creek band), the Coquille tribe, and the
Chasta Costa tribe, who are part of the
Rogue River Indian peoples of southwestern
Oregon
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. In 2006 students at
Linfield College
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participated in a project to "revitalize the language."
It is one of the four languages belonging to the ''Oregon Athabaskan'' cluster of the
Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages
Pacific Coast Athabaskan is a geographical and possibly genealogical grouping of the Athabaskan language family.
California Athabaskan
* California Athabaskan
** Hupa (dining'-xine:wh, a.k.a. Hoopa-Chilula)
*** dialects:
**** Hupa
**** Tsn ...
.
Dialects were Coquille (Upper Coquille, ), spoken along the upper
Coquille River;
[ Tututni (Tututunne, Naltunnetunne, Mikonotunne, Kwatami, Chemetunne, Chetleshin, Khwaishtunnetunnne); Euchre Creek, and Chasta Costa (Illinois River, ).
]
Phonology
The following lists the consonant and vowel sounds in the Tututni language:
References
Further reading
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External links
OLAC resources in and about the Coquille languageresources in and about the Tututni languageChasta Costa at the California Language ArchiveTututni at the California Language Archive
Upper Coquille at the California Language Archive
Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages
1983 disestablishments in Oregon
Tututni
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