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.
Yokuts nation