Tule-Kaweah Yokuts
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| Tule-Kaweah Yokuts | |
|---|---|
| Region | San Joaquin Valley, California |
| Ethnicity | Yokut people |
Native speakers | 1 (2017)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | (included in yok) |
| Glottolog | tule1245[2] |
Tule-Kaweah is a Yokutsan language of California. One dialect survives, that of the Wukchumni (Wikchamni) tribe, with a single speaker remaining as of 2014.
Wukchumni has only one native or fluent speaker, Marie Wilcox (both native and fluent), who has compiled a dictionary of the language.[1][3][4][5] “Marie's dictionary”, a short documentary by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, is about her dictionary. She has also recorded an oral version of the dictionary.[1] Together with her daughter Jennifer, Marie Wilcox teaches weekly classes to interested members of their tribe.
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Dialects[edit]
There were three dialects of Tule-Kaweah, Wikchamni (Wukchumni), Yawdanchi (AKA Nutaa), and Bokninuwad.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c ‘Who Speaks Wukchumni?’, New York Times, 19 Aug 2014.
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tule-Kaweah Yokuts". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Vaughan-Lee, Emmanuel (2014-08-18). "Who Speaks Wukchumni?". The New York Times.
- ^ Heller, Chris (2014-09-22). "Saving Wukchumni". The Atlantic.
- ^ “Marie's dictionary”, a short documentary by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.
External links[edit]
- Tule-Kaweah at California Language Archive
- Yokuts Languages, Comparison of sounds in Wikchamni and other Yokutsan languages
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