Wintu languages

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Dissemination of the Wintu languages ​​before contact with the Europeans

The Wintu languages (also Wintuan ) are a small language family in the Sacramento Valley in California .

classification

The family includes four languages, three of which are extinct:

I. Northern branch

1. Wintu (in the narrower sense) (†)
2. Nomlaki (†)

II. Southern branch

3. Patwin (only one known spokesperson in 2003)
4. South Patwin (†)

relationship

The Wintu languages ​​are often classified as part of the Penuti languages . However, the genetic unit of the Penuti languages ​​is controversial, which is why the Wintu languages ​​according to Campbell (1997) and Mithun (1999) are considered an independent language family.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Marianne Mithun: The languages ​​of Native North America . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 0-521-23228-7 .
  2. ^ Victor Golla: California Indian languages . University of California Press, Berkeley 2011, ISBN 978-0-520-26667-4 .
  3. ^ Lyle Campbell: American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America . Oxford University Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-19-509427-1 .