Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages

Pacific Coast Athabascan
Geographic
distribution:
California, Oregon
Linguistic classification:

Dené–Yeniseian?

Subdivisions:
  • California
  • Oregon
Glottolog: paci1277[1]

Pacific Coast Athabaskan is a geographical and possibly genealogical grouping of the Athabaskan language family.

California Athabaskan

1. Hupa (AKA Hoopa-Chilula)
dialects:
  • Hupa
  • Chilula-Whilkut
- Chilula
- Whilkut
2. Mattole–Bear River
dialects:
3. Wailaki ("Eel River", spoken by the Eel River Athapaskan peoples)
dialects:
  • Sinkyone
  • Wailaki
  • Nongatl
  • Lassik
4. Cahto (AKA Kato) (sometimes included in Eel River)

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

4. Upper Umpqua (AKA Etnemitane)
5. Lower Rogue River (AKA Tututni, Coquille)
dialects:
  • Upper Coquille
- Coquille (AKA Mishikwutinetunne)
- Flores Creek (AKA Kosotshe, Kusu'me, Lukkarso)
  • Tututni
- Tututunne
- Naltunnetunne
- Mikwunutunne (AKA Mikonotunne)
- Joshua (AKA Chemetunne)
- Sixes (AKA Kwatami)
- Pistol River (AKA Chetleshin)
- Wishtenatin (AKA Khwaishtunnetunnne)
  • Euchre Creek (AKA Yukichetunne)
  • Chasta Costa (AKA Illinois River, Chastacosta, Chasta Kosta)
6. Upper Rogue River (AKA Galice–Applegate)
dialects:
  • Galice (AKA Taltushtuntede)
  • Applegate (AKA Nabiltse, Dakubetede)
7. Tolowa
dialects:
  • Chetco
  • Smith River (AKA Tolowa)

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Pacific Coast Athapaskan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Bibliography

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