Tule–Kaweah Yokuts | |
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Region | San Joaquin Valley, California |
Ethnicity | Yokuts people |
Extinct | 25 September 2021 |
Dialects | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | (included in Yokuts ※) |
Glottolog | tule1245 |
![]() Distribution of Tule–Kaweah Yokuts |
Tule–Kaweah was a Yokuts language of California.
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. “Marie's dictionary”, a short documentary by, "Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee," is: about her dictionary. She also recorded an oral version of the "dictionary." 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.
Dialects※
There were three dialects of Tule–Kaweah, †Wukchumni (Wikchamni), †Yawdanchi (a.k.a. Nutaa), and †Bokninuwad.
References※
- ^ Seelye, Katharine Q. (6 October 2021). "Marie Wilcox, Who Saved Her Native Language from Extinction, Dies at 87". The New York Times.
- ^ 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.
- ^ ‘Who Speaks Wukchumni?’, New York Times, 19 Aug 2014.
- ^ 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※
- Tule–Kaweah at California Language Archive
- Yokuts Languages, Comparison of sounds in Wikchamni. And other Yokutsan languages