Tule–Kaweah Yokuts: Difference between revisions

Tule-Kaweah Yokuts
Tule-Kaweah Yokuts
Region	San Joaquin Valley, California
Ethnicity	Yokuts people
Extinct	25 September 2019
Language family	Yok-Utian ? Yokuts Nim Tule-Kaweah Yokuts; ; ;
Dialects	†Wukchumni; †Yawdanchi; †Bokninuwad;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(included in Yokuts [yok])
Glottolog	tule1245
	Distribution of Tule-Kaweah Yokuts

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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

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

External links

Tule-Kaweah at California Language Archive
Yokuts Languages, Comparison of sounds in Wikchamni and other Yokutsan languages

[nytimes.com-1] Seelye, Katharine Q. (6 October 2021). "Marie Wilcox, Who Saved Her Native Language from Extinction, Dies at 87". The New York Times.

[NYT-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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 ==Dialects==
-There were three subdialects of Tule-Kaweah, †''[[Wukchumni dialect|Wukchumni]] (Wikchamni), †[[Yawdanchi dialect|Yawdanchi]]'' ({{a.k.a.}}'' Nutaa''), and †''[[Bokninuwad]]''.
+There were three subdialects of Tule-Kaweah, †''[[Wukchumni dialect|Wukchumni]] (Wikchamni),'' †''[[Yawdanchi dialect|Yawdanchi]]'' ({{a.k.a.}}'' Nutaa''), and †''[[Bokninuwad]]''.
 ==References==