ELP ID
30369
ELP Language
Southern Pomo
Speaker Number
1-9
Public Comment
Southern Pomo is moribund. No child born after 1920 has learned the language, and as of 2012 there is only one confirmed fluent speaker and another speaker who maintains native phonology and spoke the language as a young man. The remaining speakers do not know each other, and Southern Pomo has therefore not been used as a medium of communication for decades. Though no one under 90 is fluent, there are scores of tribal members who learned dozens of words as children, and a subset of these words have been passed down to subsequent generations. (pp. 28-29.)
Source
A Grammar of Southern Pomo: An Indigenous Language of California
Preferred
Off
Speaker Number Text
1
Speaker Number Range
1-9