Tule-Kaweah Yokuts

Tule-Kaweah Yokuts
Region San Joaquin Valley, California
Ethnicity Yokut people
Native speakers
1 (2014)[1]
Yok-Utian ?
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.

Dialects

There were three dialects of Tule-Kaweah, Wikchamni (Wukchumni), Yawdanchi (AKA Nutaa), and Bokninuwad.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 ‘Who Speaks Wukchumni?’, New York Times, 19 Aug 2014.
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tule-Kaweah Yokuts". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Vaughan-Lee, Emmanuel (2014-08-18). "Who Speaks Wukchumni?". The New York Times.
  4. Heller, Chris (2014-09-22). "Saving Wukchumni". The Atlantic.
  5. “Marie's dictionary”, a short documentary by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.

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