ELP ID
11925
ELP Language
Yokuts
Speaker Number
1-9
Public Comment
Yokuts is a large complex of dialects, in the San Joaquin Valley of south-central California and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada to the east. There were over 40 local varieties, with 6 emergent languages. Tule-Kaweah Yokiuts is a cluster of dialects originally spoken in the Sierra Nevada foothills along the Tule and Kaweah Rivers, east of Porterville. Fewer than 10 speakers of the Wukchumne (Wikchamni) dialect of Tule-Kaweah remain, most of them on the Tule River Reservation.
Source
North America
Preferred
On
Speaker Number Text
<10
Speaker Number Range
1-9