Yokuts language
Endangered language of California, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with the Yakut language.
Yokuts, formerly known as Mariposa, is an endangered language family spoken in the interior of Northern and Central California in and around the San Joaquin Valley by the Yokuts people. The speakers of Yokuts languages were severely affected by disease, missionaries, and the Gold Rush. While descendants of Yokuts speakers currently number in the thousands, all languages apart from Valley Yokuts are now extinct.
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Yokuts | |
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Yokutsan, Mariposa | |
Region | San Joaquin Valley, California |
Ethnicity | Yokuts |
Native speakers | 50 (2007)[1] Including semispeakers[1] |
Yok-Utian?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | yok |
Glottolog | yoku1255 |
ELP | Yokuts |
Pre-contact distribution of the Yokuts language |
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The Yawelmani dialect of Valley Yokuts has been a focus of much linguistic research.