Tututni language

Tututni (Dotodəni, alternatively Tutudin tu-tu-DE-NE),^[4] also known as Upper Coquille, (Lower) Rogue River and Nuu-wee-ya,^[5] 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. 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.

Tututni
Tutudin, Coquille, Lower Rogue River, Rogue River
Dotodəni
Native to	Oregon
Ethnicity	Coquille tribe, Tututni tribe (including Euchre Creek band), Chasta Costa tribe
Extinct	1983[1] 3 (2006)[2]
Revival	12 (2006)[2]
Language family	Dené–Yeniseian? Na-Dené Athabaskan Pacific Coast Athabaskan Oregon Athabaskan Tututni
Dialects	Coquille Tututni Euchre Creek Chasta Costa Mikwanutni Sixes Pistol River
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: tuu – Tututni coq – Coquille
Glottolog	tutu1242  Tututni coqu1236  Coquille
Tututni is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [3]

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:^[6]

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