Tule-Kaweah Yokuts

Tule-Kaweah was a Yokuts dialect of California.

Tule-Kaweah Yokuts
RegionSan Joaquin Valley, California
EthnicityYokuts people
Extinct25 September 2021[1]
Yok-Utian ?
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3(included in Yokuts [yok])
Glottologtule1245
Distribution of Tule-Kaweah Yokuts

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.

References
  1. Seelye, Katharine Q. (6 October 2021). "Marie Wilcox, Who Saved Her Native Language from Extinction, Dies at 87". The New York Times.
  2. ‘Who Speaks Wukchumni?’, New York Times, 19 Aug 2014.
  3. Vaughan-Lee, Emmanuel (2014-08-18). "Who Speaks Wukchumni?". The New York Times.
  4. Heller, Chris (2014-09-22). "Saving Wukchumni". The Atlantic.
  5. “Marie's dictionary”, a short documentary by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.
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