ELP ID
30399
ELP Language
Mono (United States)
Speaker Number
10-99
Public Comment
Today, there are not more than 40 first-language speakers."Western Mono continues to be spoken at North Fork and Auberry (Big Sandy Rancheria), each of which had in the early twenty-first century at least ten fully fluent speakers, the youngest in his fifties. There are also a few speakers at Tollhouse (Cold Springs Rancheria) and Dunlap. In addition, one hundred or more people have some passive of second-language knowledge of the language ... Eastern (or Owens Valley Paiute) is still spoken in the Indian communities at Bishop, Big Pine, Lone Pine, and Fort Independence. All Eastern Mono speakers are elderly and number not more than thirty in a total populations of about a thousand" (p. 173).
Source
California Indian Languages
Preferred
On
Speaker Number Text
<40
Speaker Number Range
10-99