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

California Athabaskan

1. Hupa
Hupa language
-External links :* * overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages*...

( Hoopa-Chilula)
dialects:
  • Hupa
  • Chilula-Whilkut
- Chilula
- Whilkut
2. Mattole–Bear River
dialects:
  • Mattole
  • Bear River
    Bear River Indians (California)
    The Mattole, including the Bear River Indians, are a group of Native Americans traditionally living on the Mattole and Bear rivers in the vicinity of Cape Mendocino, within the present Humboldt County, California...

3. Eel River
dialects:
  • Sinkyone-Wailaki-Nongatl-Lassik-Cahto
- Sinkyone
- Wailaki
Wailaki
The Eel River Athapaskans include the Wailaki, Lassik, Nongatl, and Sinkyone groups of Native Americans that traditionally live on or near the Eel River of northwestern California....

- Nongatl
- Lassik
- Cahto
Kato language
Kato is an extinct Athapaskan language that was spoken by the Kato people of northwestern California, USA. It also referred to as Batem-Da-Kai-Ee, Kai Po-Mo, and Tlokeang.-External links:...

 ( Kato)

Oregon Athabaskan

4. Upper Umpqua
Upper Umpqua
Upper Umpqua is an extinct Athabascan language once spoken along the south fork of the Umpqua River near the Oregon coast. It has been extinct for at least fifty years and little is known about it. Some data was collected by Melville Jacobs...

5. Rogue River
Rogue River (tribe)
Rogue River is the name of a Native American group originally located in southern Oregon in the United States. Rogue River was not a single tribe, but a conglomeration of many affiliated and related tribal groups. The total estimated population of these tribes in 1850 was about 9,500...

( Tututni or Lower Rogue River)
dialects:
  • Upper Coquille
- Coquille
- Flores Creek
  • Tututni
- Tututunne
- Mikwunutunne
- Joshua ( Chemetunne)
- Sixes
- Pistol River ( Chetleshin)
- Wishtenatin ( Khwaishtunnetunnne)
  • Euchre Creek
  • Chasta Costa ( Illinois River, Chastacosta, Chasta Kosta)
6. Galice–Applegate
dialects:
  • Galice
  • Applegate ( Nabiltse)
7. Tolowa
Tolowa language
The Tolowa language is a member of the Pacific Coast subgroup of the Athabaskan language family. It is spoken by Tolowa Indians in southern Oregon and northern California. There are only a handful of remaining fully fluent native speakers...

dialects:
  • Chetco
  • Smith River
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