Talk:Siletz Dee-ni

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Just a few quick notes for someone to look into:

1) This article should probably link or redirect to the Tolowa Language page since that's what Siletz Dee-ni is.
2) It needs confirmation, but the "last speaker" in question is probably Bud Lane.
3) There are more than one "Siletz language". The tribe is a confederation the tribes that were forced onto the Siletz reservation.
4) "Siletz Dee-ni" is an Athabaskan language from Southern Oregon.
5) "Siletz" is a Tillamook language (Salish language family).

1) It's more apt to say that Tolowa is a dialect of Siletz Dee-ni. Dee-ni is similar to Modern Standard Arabic in that it's a creole of the dialects.

2) The last speaker is indeed Bud Lane. He and several others, myself included, are working to bring the language back from the brink.

3) With these statement, you are treading on shaky ground. There is only one Siletz language (Tillamook Salish, which is extinct) and there is the Confederated Tribe language, the Siletz Dee-ni.

4,5) Pretty much right on.
Ryoga-2003 (talk) 18:05, 1 July 2010 (UTC)