Chico (language)
Chico (Valley Maidu) | ||
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speaker | 0 (extinct) | |
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ISO 639 -2 |
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ISO 639-3 |
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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
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- 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 .