Tututni language


Tututni, also known as Upper Coquille, Rogue River and Nuu-wee-ya, is an Athabaskan language spoken by three Tututni (Lower Rogue [River Athabaskan)] tribes: the Tututni tribe, the Coquille tribe, and the 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." It is one of the four languages belonging to the Oregon Athabaskan cluster of the Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages.
Dialects were Coquille, spoken along the upper Coquille River; Tututni ; Euchre Creek, and Chasta Costa.

Phonology

The following lists the consonant and vowel sounds in the Tututni language:
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