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Pacific Coast Athabaskan
is a geographical and possibly genealogical grouping of the
Athabaskan
language family.
California Athabaskan
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Often the Mattole and Wailaki-speaking groups together are called
Southern Athapaskans
. Their languages were similar to each other, but differed from the northern California tribes whose languages were also part of the Athapaskan family. They are not to be confused with the Apachean peoples (the
Apache
and
Navajo
) - also known as Southern Athabascans - of the
Southwestern United States
and
Northern Mexico
, who speak the
Southern Athabaskan languages
.
Oregon Athabaskan
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- Oregon Athabaskan
- Upper Umpqua
(a.k.a. Etnemitane)
- Lower Rogue River
(a.k.a. Tututni, Coquille)
- dialects:
- Upper Coquille
- Coquille (a.k.a. Mishikwutinetunne)
- Flores Creek (a.k.a. Kosotshe, Kusu'me, Lukkarso)
- Tututni
- Tututunne
- Naltunnetunne
- Mikwunutunne (a.k.a. Mikonotunne)
- Joshua (a.k.a. Chemetunne)
- Sixes (a.k.a. Kwatami)
- Pistol River (a.k.a. Chetleshin)
- Wishtenatin (a.k.a. Khwaishtunnetunnne)
- Euchre Creek (a.k.a. Yukichetunne)
- Chasta Costa (a.k.a. Illinois River, Chastacosta, Chasta Kosta)
- Upper Rogue River
(a.k.a. Galice?Applegate)
- dialects:
- Galice (a.k.a. Taltushtuntede)
- Applegate (a.k.a. Nabiltse, Dakubetede)
- Chetco-Tolowa
- dialects:
- Chetco
- Smith River (a.k.a. Tolowa)
- Siletz Dee-ni (modern Chetco-Tolowa variant with word from Chasta Costa, Applegate, Galice, Rogue River, and other members of the
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
)
Linguists differ on the classification of the Lower Rogue River, Upper Rogue River, and Chetco-Tolowa branches as being either separate languages, or dialects of one macrolanguage, comprising a dialect continuum centered on the Lower Rogue River dialect group with the Chetco-Tolowa and Upper Rogue River groups being peripheral.
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The latter view is common among tribal elders and
language revitalizationists
, who note a high degree of mutual intelligibility and shared cultural identity. In the absence of a single, unambiguous English name for the dialect group, some learner-speakers refer to it in English as
Nuu-wee-ya'
, an
endonym
common to all three varieties meaning "our language".
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Northwestern Canada
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Pacific Coast
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Southern
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Proto-language
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