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Tule-Kaweah Yokuts
Region San Joaquin Valley, California
Ethnicity Yokuts people
Extinct25 September 2021 [1]
Yok-Utian ?
  • Yokuts
    • General Yokuts
      • Nim
        • Tule-Kaweah Yokuts
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]

Dialects

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

References

  1. ^ a b Seelye, Katharine Q. (6 October 2021). "Marie Wilcox, Who Saved Her Native Language from Extinction, Dies at 87". The New York Times.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b ‘Who Speaks Wukchumni?’, New York Times, 19 Aug 2014.
  4. ^ Vaughan-Lee, Emmanuel (2014-08-18). "Who Speaks Wukchumni?". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Heller, Chris (2014-09-22). "Saving Wukchumni". The Atlantic.
  6. ^ “Marie's dictionary”, a short documentary by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.

External links

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