Yawdanchi (also spelled Yaudanchi) was a dialect of Tule-Kaweah Yokuts that was historically spoken by the Yawdanchi Yokuts people living along the Tule River in the Tulare Lake Basin of California. The Yawdanchi dialect is closely related to the Wiikchamni dialect.[2]
| Yawdanchi | |
|---|---|
| Extinct | c. 20th century[1] |
Yok-Utian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | yawd1234 |
Yawdanchi was documented by A. L. Kroeber who published an article on the grammar and phonology of the dialect in 1907.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Marie Wilcox, who saved her tribe's language, dies". Washington Post. Associated Press. October 8, 2021. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-10-10.
Wilcox was once the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni but she worked for more than 20 years to produce a dictionary of the language spoken by her tribe in California's San Joaquin Valley and taught her family. Now there are at least three fluent speakers of the language, including her daughter.
- ^ a b Kroeber, A. L. (1907). "The Yokuts Language of South Central California" (PDF). University of California Publications. 2.
- ^ "Marie Wilcox, who saved her tribe's language, dies". Washington Post. Associated Press. October 8, 2021. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-10-10.
Wilcox was once the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni but she worked for more than 20 years to produce a dictionary of the language spoken by her tribe in California's San Joaquin Valley and taught her family. Now there are at least three fluent speakers of the language, including her daughter.