Northeastern Pomo, also known as Salt Pomo, is a Pomoan language of

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. There are no living fluent speakers. It was spoken along Stony Creek, a

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of the

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. Northeastern was one of seven mutually unintelligible Pomoan languages spoken in Northern California. Unlike the other six Pomoan languages (going to north to south: Northern Pomo, Central Pomo, Eastern Pomo, Southeastern Pomo, Kashaya Pomo, Southern Pomo), Northeastern Pomo was not spoken in an area immediately contiguous with any other Pomoan-speaking area. Northeastern Pomo speakers were ringed by speakers of Yuki,

Nomlaki The Nomlaki (also Noamlakee, Central Wintu, Nomelaki) are a Wintun people native to the area of the Sacramento Valley, extending westward to the Coast Range in Northern California. Today some Nomlaki people are enrolled in the federally recogniz ...

, and

Patwin The Patwin (also Patween and Southern Wintu) are a band of Wintun people in Northern California. The Patwin comprise the southern branch of the Wintun group, native inhabitants of California since approximately 500. Today, Patwin people are en ...

; Yuki is unrelated to Pomoan or Nomlaki and Patwin, both of which are within the Wintu language family.

References

External links

Northeastern Pomo
language project at the

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Northeastern Pomo language
overview at the

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OLAC resources in and about the Northeastern Pomo language
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