Tututni language

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Tututni
Tutudin, Coquille
Rogue River
Native to Oregon
Ethnicity Coquille people
Extinct 1983[1]
Revival [2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
tuu – Tututni
coq – Coquille
Glottolog tutu1242  (Tututni)[3]
coqu1236  (Coquille)[4]

Tututni (Dotodəni, alternatively "Tutudin"), also known as Coquille and (Lower) Rogue River, is an extinct Athabaskan language once spoken by the Coquille people (one of the Rogue River 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." [2] 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, Chemetunne, Chetleshin, Khwaishtunnetunnne); Euchre Creek, and Chasta Costa (Illinois River, Šista Qʼʷə́sta).

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Tututni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Coquille at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ a b [1]
  3. ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tututni". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. 
  4. ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Coquille". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. 

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