Tule-Kaweah Yokuts | |
---|---|
Region | San Joaquin Valley, California |
Ethnicity | Yokuts people |
Extinct | 25 September 2021 [1] |
Dialects |
|
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | (included in Yokuts [yok]) |
Glottolog |
tule1245 |
Distribution of Tule-Kaweah Yokuts |
Tule-Kaweah was a Yokuts language of California. [2]
Wukchumni, the last surviving dialect, had only one native or fluent speaker, Marie Wilcox (both native and fluent), who compiled a dictionary of the language. [3] [4] [5] [6] “Marie's dictionary”, a short documentary by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, is about her dictionary. She also recorded an oral version of the dictionary. [3] Together with her daughter Jennifer, Marie Wilcox taught weekly classes to interested members of their tribe. Marie Wilcox died on September 25, 2021, rendering Tule-Kaweah extinct. [1]
There were three dialects of Tule-Kaweah, † Wukchumni (Wikchamni), † Yawdanchi ( a.k.a. Nutaa), and † Bokninuwad.
Tule-Kaweah Yokuts | |
---|---|
Region | San Joaquin Valley, California |
Ethnicity | Yokuts people |
Extinct | 25 September 2021 [1] |
Dialects |
|
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | (included in Yokuts [yok]) |
Glottolog |
tule1245 |
Distribution of Tule-Kaweah Yokuts |
Tule-Kaweah was a Yokuts language of California. [2]
Wukchumni, the last surviving dialect, had only one native or fluent speaker, Marie Wilcox (both native and fluent), who compiled a dictionary of the language. [3] [4] [5] [6] “Marie's dictionary”, a short documentary by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, is about her dictionary. She also recorded an oral version of the dictionary. [3] Together with her daughter Jennifer, Marie Wilcox taught weekly classes to interested members of their tribe. Marie Wilcox died on September 25, 2021, rendering Tule-Kaweah extinct. [1]
There were three dialects of Tule-Kaweah, † Wukchumni (Wikchamni), † Yawdanchi ( a.k.a. Nutaa), and † Bokninuwad.