Chico (language)

Chico (Valley Maidu)
Spoken in	USA ( California )
speaker	0 (extinct)
Linguistic classification	Maiduan (Pujunan) Chico
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	-
ISO 639-3	vmv

Chico (also Valley Maidu ) is an extinct language of the Maiduan languages within the Penuti languages . It was spoken by the Maidu who lived in northern California between Sacramento and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

See also

• Indigenous people of California
• List of North American Indian tribes

swell

• Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509427-5 .
• Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages ​​of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 978-1-55671-159-6 . (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com )  ( page no longer available ).
• Heizer, Robert F. (1966). Languages, territories, and names of California Indian tribes .
• Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages ​​of Native North America . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-23228-9 (hardcover); ISBN 978-0-521-29875-9 .

Web links

• Ethnologue: Maidu, Valley
• OLAC resources in and about the language