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Wintuan language of California, USA
Nomlaki
(Noamlakee), or
Wintun
, is a moribund
Wintuan language
of
Northern California
. It was not extensively documented, however, some recordings exist of speaker Andrew Freeman and Sylvester Simmons.
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There is at least one partial speaker left per Golla (2011).
Nomlaki Indians, or in their own language
Noml?qa B?da
;
nom
is ‘west’, and
l?qa
is a verb form of ‘speak’,
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thus ‘western speakers’ (but ‘western dwellers’, J. Curtin 1898 in F. W. Hodge 1910).
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