Tule-Kaweah_Yokuts

Tule-Kaweah Yokuts

Tule-Kaweah Yokuts

Yokuts dialect of California, US

Tule-Kaweah was a Yokuts language of California.[2]

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