Palewyami, also known as Altinin and Poso Creek Yokuts, was a major dialect of the Yokuts language of California, or possibly a distinct but closely related language.[2]
| Palewyami | |
|---|---|
| Poso Creek, Altinin | |
| Region | San Joaquin Valley, California |
| Ethnicity | Yokuts |
| Extinct | 1930s[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | (included in Yokuts [yok]) |
| Glottolog | pale1254 |
Palewyami was spoken in Kern County, along Poso Creek. The language has not been spoken since the 1930s.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Victor Golla (2007), Atlas of the World's Languages, p. 21
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Palewyami Yokuts". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Sources
edit- Gamble, Geoffrey, Yokuts Imperative and Demonstrative Pronouns, American Indian Linguistics and Ethnography in Honor of Laurence C. Thompson (eds., Anthony Mattina and Timothy Montler), pp. 385-396, Missoula, University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 10, 1993, ISBN 1-879763-10-9
External links
edit- Palewyami at California Language Archive
- "Yokuts languages". Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. 2010.
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