Tule-Kaweah Yokuts
RegionSan Joaquin Valley, California
EthnicityYokuts people
Extinct25 September 2021[1]
Yok-Utian ?
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3(included in Yokuts [yok])
Glottologtule1245
Distribution of Tule-Kaweah Yokuts

Tule-Kaweah was a Yokuts dialect 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.[2][3][4][5] “Marie's dictionary”, a short documentary by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, is about her dictionary. She also recorded an oral version of the dictionary.[2] 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 subdialects of Tule-Kaweah, †Wukchumni (Wikchamni), †Yawdanchi (a.k.a. Nutaa), and †Bokninuwad.

References

  1. 1 2 Seelye, Katharine Q. (6 October 2021). "Marie Wilcox, Who Saved Her Native Language from Extinction, Dies at 87". The New York Times.
  2. 1 2 ‘Who Speaks Wukchumni?’, New York Times, 19 Aug 2014.
  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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