Tolowa language

Tolowa
Taa-laa-wa Dee-ni’ Wee-ya’
Pronunciation/tʰaːlaːwa teːniʔ weːjaʔ/
Native toUSA
Regionsouthwest Oregon
Ethnicity100 Chetco (1977);[1] 1,000 Tolowa (2000)[2]
Extinct1990s[3]
RevivalL2 speakers since 1980s
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
tol – Tolowa
ctc – Chetco
Glottologtolo1259
ELPTolowa

The Tolowa language (also called Chetco-Tolowa, or Siletz Dee-ni) is a member of the Pacific Coast subgroup of the Athabaskan language family. Together with three other closely related languages (Lower Rogue River Athabaskan, Upper Rogue River Athabaskan or Galice-Applegate and Upper Umpqua or Etnemitane) it forms a distinctive Oregon Athabaskan cluster within the subgroup.

  1. ^ Tolowa language at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Tolowa language at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019) Closed access icon
  3. ^ Golla, Victor (2011). California Indian languages. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-26667-4.