Tule?Kaweah Yokuts

Tule?Kaweah Yokuts
Tule?Kaweah Yokuts
Region	San Joaquin Valley , California
Ethnicity	Yokuts people
Extinct	25 September 2021
Language family	Yok-Utian ? Yokutsan General Yokuts Nim Tule?Kaweah Yokuts ; ; ; ;
Dialects	† Wukchumni ; † Yawdanchi ; † Bokninuwad ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(included in Yokuts [yok])
Glottolog	tule1245
	Distribution of Tule?Kaweah Yokuts

Tule?Kaweah was a Yokuts language of California. ^[2]

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. ^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] “Marie's dictionary”, a short documentary by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, is about her dictionary. She also recorded an oral version of the dictionary. ^[3] 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 [ edit ]

There were three dialects of Tule?Kaweah, † Wukchumni (Wikchamni), † Yawdanchi ( a.k.a. Nutaa ), and † Bokninuwad .

References [ edit ]

^ ^a ^b Seelye, Katharine Q. (6 October 2021). "Marie Wilcox, Who Saved Her Native Language from Extinction, Dies at 87" . The New York Times .
^ Hammarstrom, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tule?Kaweah Yokuts" . Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
^ ^a ^b ‘Who Speaks Wukchumni?’ , New York Times , 19 Aug 2014.
^ Vaughan-Lee, Emmanuel (2014-08-18). "Who Speaks Wukchumni?" . The New York Times .
^ Heller, Chris (2014-09-22). "Saving Wukchumni" . The Atlantic .
^ “Marie's dictionary” , a short documentary by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.

External links [ edit ]

Tule?Kaweah at California Language Archive
Yokuts Languages , Comparison of sounds in Wikchamni and other Yokutsan languages

[nytimes.com-1] Seelye, Katharine Q. (6 October 2021). "Marie Wilcox, Who Saved Her Native Language from Extinction, Dies at 87" . The New York Times .

[glotto-2] Hammarstrom, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tule?Kaweah Yokuts" . Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[NYT-3] ‘Who Speaks Wukchumni?’ , New York Times , 19 Aug 2014.

[4] Vaughan-Lee, Emmanuel (2014-08-18). "Who Speaks Wukchumni?" . The New York Times .

[5] Heller, Chris (2014-09-22). "Saving Wukchumni" . The Atlantic .

[6] “Marie's dictionary” , a short documentary by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.

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