| Miluk | |
|---|---|
| Lower Coquille | |
| miluk tɬiis | |
| Pronunciation | [míluk] |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Oregon |
| Ethnicity | Miluk people |
| Extinct | 1939, with the death of Annie Miner Peterson |
| Revival | [1] |
Coosan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | iml |
iml | |
| Glottolog | milu1241 |
 Map of Coosan languages | |
Miluk, also known as Lower Coquille from its location, is one of two Coosan languages. It shares more than half of its vocabulary with Hanis, though these are not always obvious, and grammatical differences cause the two languages to look quite different. Miluk started being displaced by Athabaskan in the late 18th century, and many Miluk shifted to Athabaskan and Hanis.
Miluk was spoken around the lower Coquille River and the South Slough of Coos Bay. The name míluk is the endonym, derived from a village name. The last fully fluent speaker of Miluk was Annie Miner Peterson, who died in 1939. She knew both Miluk and Hanis, and made a number of recordings.[2][3] Laura Hodgkiss Metcalf, who died in 1961, was the last functional speaker (her mother was Miluk), and was an informant to Morris Swadesh for his Penutian Vocabulary Survey.
- ^ "Contact". dlank'ts tɬə tɬiis. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
- ^ Whereat, Patty (June 2001). "The Milluk Language - Ghaala" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 7, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
- ^ Macnaughtan, Don (1995). "Remembering the Rhinoceros: The Coquille Indian Tribe Establish a New Tribal Library on the Central Oregon Coast". Vol. OLA Quarterly 1, no. 2. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
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