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Nomlaki language

Wintuan language of California, US From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Nomlaki (Noamlakee), or Wintun, is a moribund Wintuan language of Northern California. It was not extensively documented, however, some recordings exist of speaker Andrew Freeman and Sylvester Simmons.[2] There is at least one partial speaker left.[1]

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Nomlaki Indians, or in their own language Nomlāqa Bōda; nom is 'west', and lāqa is a verb form of 'speak',[3] thus 'western speakers' (but 'western dwellers', J. Curtin 1898 in F. W. Hodge 1910).

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