Tule-Kaweah Yokuts
Yokuts dialect of California, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tule-Kaweah was a Yokuts language of California.[2]
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Tule-Kaweah Yokuts | |
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Region | San Joaquin Valley, California |
Ethnicity | Yokuts people |
Extinct | 25 September 2021[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | (included in Yokuts [yok]) |
Glottolog | tule1245 |
Distribution of Tule-Kaweah Yokuts |
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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]