Tule–Kaweah Yokuts | |
Region: | San Joaquin Valley, California |
Ethnicity: | Yokuts people |
Ref: | [1] |
Familycolor: | American |
Fam1: | Yok-Utian ? |
Fam2: | Yokutsan |
Fam3: | General Yokuts |
Fam4: | Nim |
Dia1: | †Wukchumni |
Dia2: | †Yawdanchi |
Dia3: | †Bokninuwad |
Iso3: | none |
Iso3comment: | (included in [yok]) |
Glotto: | tule1245 |
Glottorefname: | Tule-Kaweah Yokuts |
Mapcaption: | Distribution of Tule–Kaweah Yokuts |
Map: | Yokuts Tule Kaweah dialects.svg |
Extinct: | 25 September 2021, with the death of Marie Wilcox |
States: | United States |
Tule–Kaweah is an extinct Yokuts language of California.
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.[6]
There were three dialects of Tule–Kaweah, †Wukchumni (Wikchamni), †Yawdanchi ( Nutaa), and †Bokninuwad.