Brigadier General James Monroe Williams

Tututni (Dotodəni, alternatively "Tutudin"), also known as Upper Coquille, (Lower) Rogue River and Nuu-wee-ya,[2] 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."[3] 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:[4]

Consonants
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
Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i
Mid e ə o
Open a

References

  1. ^ a b Tututni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Coquille at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "National Breath of Life | Myaamia Center - Miami University".
  3. ^ Davis, Laura. "Saving Language from Extinction". Retrieved 2024-02-14.
  4. ^ Golla, Victor (1976). Tututni (Oregon Athapaskan). pp. 217–227.

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source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tututni_language