Palewyami, also known as Altinin and Poso Creek Yokuts, was a major dialect of the
Yokuts language
Yokuts, formerly known as Mariposa, is an endangered language spoken in the interior of Northern and Central California in and around the San Joaquin Valley by the Yokuts people. The speakers of Yokuts were severely affected by disease, mission ...
of California, or possibly a distinct but closely related language.
Palewyami was spoken in
Kern County
Kern County is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 909,235. Its county seat is Bakersfield, California, Bakersfield.
Kern County compris ...
, along Poso Creek. The language has not been spoken since the 1930s.
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References
Sources
* Gamble, Geoffrey, ''Yokuts Imperative and Demonstrative Pronouns'', American Indian Linguistics and Ethnography in Honor of Laurence C. Thompson (eds., Anthony Mattina and Timothy Montler
Timothy Montler is an American academic and linguist. Montler is a professor of linguistics at the University of North Texas, as of 2013. He has worked to preserve the Klallam language since 1990.
Montler collaborated with Adeline Smith, a Low ...
), pp. 385-396, Missoula, University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 10, 1993,
External links
Palewyami at California Language Archive
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Yokutsan languages
Extinct languages of North America
History of Kern County, California